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

[Thomas Dalton]

2009/9/28 Sue Gardner <susanpgardner at gmail.com>:
> Greg, I really don't want to reply to the specifics of this conversation -- Brion and Erik and others are much more deeply involved, and therefore better situated to respond.
>
> But I will say this: I know some people have speculated, or asked, if the Wikimedia Foundation is deliberately holding up implementation of FlaggedRevs in English Wikipedia, because the staff doesn't want it, or thinks it's a bad idea. For the record: we are not.
>
> I personally am worried that an aggressive deployment of FlaggedRevs may act as a barrier to new participants. The statistics for new editors on the German Wikipedia seem to suggest that their implementation has in fact caused a decline in new editors.  I find that worrying.  But I realize that 1) there may be other factors at play on the German Wikipedia, affecting participation, that are unrelated to FlaggedRevs,

I was looking at those stats just a couple of days ago and it seems
the decline started a month *before* the implementation of FlaggedRevs
on dewiki, so it would seem to be due to something else. (Unless there
is some error in my data.)