[WikiEN-l] Flagged protection and patrolled revisions

[Nathan]

On Mon, May 3, 2010 at 11:15 AM, Carcharoth <carcharothwp at googlemail.com> wrote:
> Since it does seem very close to going live, could I ask if plans have
> been made for how to handle announcing the arrival of this feature and
> any post-implementation problems? Hopefully there won't be any or
> many, but are there plans ranging from "rollback completely if things
> go awfully wrong" to "make adjustments as needed and be responsive to
> concerns raised"?
>
> And how much input exactly will ordinary editors have
> post-implementation? Is the interface flexible and can be changed by
> editors or admins, and which bits can only be tweaked by developers
> (either using common sense or following a community poll or Bugzilla
> request or request somewhere else)? I ask this partly as someone who
> (with others) may have to deal with any massive disputes or edit wars
> that break out over this if some aspects of flagged revisions or its
> interface are editable and changeable on-wiki (presumably in the
> Mediawiki namespace, editable by admins only).
>
> I think the ability for the community of editors and admins to make
> such changes to the interface is a *good* thing, but want to be clear
> exactly what is changeable and by whom, and if off-wiki requests are
> needed, where to make them, and making this location and the whole
> roll-out clear to people via on-wiki notices.
>
> Presumably, an update will be made to the on-wiki pages about this
> before it goes live? And there will some site notice giving some
> warning? having things change mid-edit could be a bit disconcerting!
>
> Carcharoth
>


These are good points. I'm cc'ing this to foundation-l, as the
Foundation is taking the primary role in rolling this out to the
English Wikipedia (or at least, has been). Maybe William and Erik can
comment on what the expectations are for the extension's
documentation, and what sort of delay we can expect between the coming
development end point and live access on en.wp? Does the WMF plan to
follow the trial roll out described on community pages there, or
something else?

Nathan