[WikiEN-l] One-sentence explanation of pending changes

[William Pietri]

On 06/09/2010 02:30 PM, Andrew Gray wrote:
>
> I'd agree with this. A limit - even if it's not technically needed -
> which can be altered after a bedding-in period is a great idea, and
> it's probably an improvement on the situation without one. If nothing
> else, it avoids us being overambitious, protecting more pages than we
> can scale to handle, and then discovering the hard way that there are
> horrible backlogs.
>
> One suggestion I would make is to give a draft timetable - say, if we
> are happy with the technical conditions then on D+60 after rollout
> we'll increase it to 4,000, and allow other namespaces, and then
> increase it by a thousand pages a month until X point. Or something -
> if we have a timetable we can speed it up or slow it down as
> circumstances warrant, but otherwise it'll seem a bit arbitrary and a
> point of friction.
>    

That sounds great. Perhaps you could post something here?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Requests_for_comment/Flagged_revisions_trial

This need not be decided right at launch, so there's some time for 
discussion.

Thanks,

William



William