[WikiEN-l] Community ready for Pending Changes (nee Flagged Protection)?

[Rob Lanphier]

On Tue, Jun 8, 2010 at 4:34 AM, FT2 <ft2.wiki at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Tue, Jun 8, 2010 at 6:29 AM, Rob Lanphier <robla at wikimedia.org> wrote:
>
> > 3.  This set of pages:
> >
> >
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Flagged_protection_and_patrolled_revisions
> >
> > ...still has the old vocabulary, and still refers to "patrolled
> revisions"
> > as part of the trial (which is a separate feature that probably won't be
> > completed by the time the trial is over with).
> [..]
> Might it be worth gathering all Flagged Revs pages and moving them to
> [[WP:Pending Changes/Historical discussions/...]] with redirects, to make
> clear what's what?


That would be wonderful!  I suspect there's some sensitivity around the word
"obsolete" since patrolled revisions is a feature that still has a popular
following.  However, at this point its just not as tightly coupled with the
pending changes trial as it once was.  So the trick is going to be to
decouple the two enough so that it doesn't confuse people about what's
happening now versus what is on the roadmap, but not so decoupled that the
patrolled revisions proposal gets exiled to Siberia.

Rob