[WikiEN-l] Pending Changes: first press

[Andrew Gray]

On 15 June 2010 19:52, Gregory Maxwell <gmaxwell at gmail.com> wrote:

> Though I wouldn't recommend trying it _first_ nor would I recommend
> trying it while the press is talking about.  Perhaps it would be an
> intolerable train wreak only because the press is spreading the name
> of that article around.  It would be unfortunate if we reached
> incorrect conclusions on the effectiveness of pending vs protected on
> high traffic articles simply due to some temporary attention skew.

Mmm. If we've got a queue - an idea which I have to say I quite like,
even if I was initially a bit confused by it - then why not schedule
in some articles that we expect it not to work very well on? It could
be it has unexpectedly less terrible effects.

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- Andrew Gray
  andrew.gray at dunelm.org.uk