[Foundation-l] Status of flagged protection (flagged revisions) for English Wikipedia.

[Voice of All]

I don't really have authority to enable large extensions on large projects.

Also if there are UI improvements needed, then I'll need specific requests
so I know what to do.


Gregory Maxwell wrote:
> 
> Sue,
> 
> I sent the below included inquiry to wikitech-l regarding
> http://flaggedrevs.labs.wikimedia.org/.
> 
> Now almost a month later I still  have received no response regarding
> the status of
> this test deployment. It is is still not active on the test site, —
> although this
> has literally gone on for months.
> 
> As far as I can tell this is one of the most significant initiatives
> on English Wikipedia as of lately— in that it has site wide impact and
> the design and decision of the configuration was the work of hundreds
> of people, including a reworking after the WMF staff refused to
> implement the initial decision which only achieved almost a decent
> majority support, for lack of sufficient community support.   Now that
> the plan has been improved and the support is overwhelming a commitment
> to roll with this plan was made but no progress appears to be being made.
> Inquiries have been met with silence.
> 
> I believe the community expects and deserves a greater level of
> responsiveness from the staff of Wikimedia.
> 
> What I'd like to know—
>  What is delaying this deployment?
>  What is a reasonable expectation for the timeline in implement
> community chosen decisions?
>  How can communication be improved so that the communities high
> priority implementations aren't ignored for weeks and even months by
> wikimedia staff?
>  How can the people who care about this help see it through to completion?
> 
>  What does this say about the enormous strategic projects initiate
> when Wikimedia is already failing to meet its commitments on high
> impact community initiatives?
> 
> Thank you for your time and consideration.
> 
> 
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Gregory Maxwell <gmaxwell at gmail.com>
> Date: Tue, Sep 1, 2009 at 7:21 PM
> Subject: Re: [Wikitech-l] flaggedrevs.labs.wikimedia.org Status?
> To: Wikimedia developers <wikitech-l at lists.wikimedia.org>
> 
> 
> On Tue, Sep 1, 2009 at 7:17 PM, K. Peachey<p858snake at yahoo.com.au> wrote:
>> On Wed, Sep 2, 2009 at 7:02 AM, Platonides<Platonides at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> You know, when you point to a broken page, people^W wikipedians tend to
>>> do absurd things like fixing them :)
>> I was going to fix some up, but import is restricted and i was too
>> lazy to do copy/paste imports.
> 
> Ehhh.  It don't know that it makes sense to spend effort manually
> fixing pages on a test project.  If the import procedure is not
> working right it should be improved...
> 
> 
> In any case, I'm sorry for the tangent. The main intent of my post was
> to determine the current status:
> 
> Is the import finished?
> When will the configuration changes for flagged protection be turned on?
> 
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