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

[Amory Meltzer]

No.  This may not be ideal but that is certainly worse.  Damn the torpedos!

~A

On Monday, June 14, 2010, William Pietri <william at scissor.com> wrote:
> On 06/14/2010 01:12 AM, Cenarium sysop wrote:
>> On Mon, Jun 14, 2010 at 7:57 AM, Cenarium sysop<cenarium.sysop at gmail.com>wrote:
>>
>>> You'll soon have your answer here:
>>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Reviewing#Proposing_a_delay_to_trial_implementation.
>>> There are many outstanding issues to address and still quite a deal of
>>> preparation to be made. Again people didn't get involved until a launch date
>>> was fixed, it may be hard to define one in advance, but that's how it is.
>> We could also implement as scheduled, but refrain from using pending changes
>> in mainspace until we're ready. This way, reviewers could start testing in
>> Wikipedia namespace before it's rolled out on articles. The issue of using
>> level 2 PC-protection is not resolved yet, so we may request a configuration
>> change if there's consensus for not using it.
>>
>
> I am going to stay quite thoroughly out of the discussion as to
> community readiness or the actual date; the community asked for this
> ASAP, and if the community changes its mind and wants it enabled later,
> that's entirely up to the community.
>
> However, I do want to say two things.
>
> One, delaying isn't free. There has been a lot of work in prep for this,
> and some of it will have to be done again for a new date, especially on
> the ops and press sides. If we cancel the June 15th rollout, then once
> the community is happy that things are sorted, we'll have to go back and
> find a new date that works for the FlaggedRevs people, the ops people,
> and the communications people, and hope that we can get time for
> reporters on Jimmy's calendar again.
>
> Two, the community has been asking for this ASAP all year, so any
> request to delay has to be clear enough and strong enough to obviously
> override that long-established and widely supported consensus. So far
> it's 7 to 5, which is neither clear nor strong.
>
>
> Regardless, we will be rolling out the FlaggedRevs code changes to all
> wikis tonight as scheduled. That should have no effect on enwiki and
> hopefully small effects on current FlaggedRevs users, so there's no
> reason to delay that part of it.
>
> William
>
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~A