[WikiEN-l] Flagged Protection update for May 13

[Emily Monroe]

[snip]
> [2] Except those of you who already have them. But for you, we have  
> a whole wiki that you can go wild on. You can even have a wheel war  
> if you want and we won't tell a soul.

Should you really encourage behavior such as wheel warring? Even as a  
joke?

Emily
On May 14, 2010, at 12:25 AM, William Pietri wrote:

> As requested, here's the weekly Flagged Protection update.
>
>
> As I mentioned last week, we are starting pre-rollout activities while
> we finish up the last bits of development. Now that the successful
> launch of the new enwiki UI is out of the way, we will be getting
> together with Rob H. and the rest of the ops ninjas to discuss release
> dates.
>
> Also upcoming is a final pass at the terms and text, some more  
> fiddling
> with cross-browser CSS and JavaScript issues, some work with the
> community to figure out the remaining details of the community side of
> the trial (keep an eye on RobLa's activity there), and a call for the
> nice people at the German Wikipedia to try our shiny new software with
> their config and make sure we haven't broken anything for them.
> (Regarding that, if some German speaker reading this would like to  
> help
> set up the test site, we could use a hand. Contact me via direct  
> email.)
>
> The discussion of rollout means that we think the software is, some
> minor nits aside, basically ready. Want to be sure? You can test it  
> out
> here, and we'll even give you admin rights [1] to do so:
>
> http://flaggedrevs.labs.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page
>
>
> To see what we've changed this week, there's a list here:
>
> http://flaggedrevs.labs.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia:Flagged_Protection_updates#2010_May_13
>
>
> To see the upcoming work, it's listed in our tracker, under Current  
> and
> Backlog:
>
> http://www.pivotaltracker.com/projects/46157
>
>
> We expect to release to labs again next week, and each week thereafter
> until this goes live on the English Wikipedia.
>
>
> William
>
>
> [1] You know that you [2] have always wanted admin rights!
>
> [2] Except those of you who already have them. But for you, we have a
> whole wiki that you can go wild on. You can even have a wheel war if  
> you
> want and we won't tell a soul.
>
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