[Wikiquality-l] Fwd: [Internal-l] quality.wikimedia.org - first look & plans

[P. Birken]

Crossposting with internal

I"m again on a conference right now and will be back next Saturday, so
starting on 20. September sounds very good. As for the starting date,
I suggest actually doing this sooner. If it turns out that one month
of Beta is sufficient, we should turn on this long-awaited extension.
I don't think it is necessarily bad if the good news of stable
versions first sinks in and after some weeks, we ask perople for
money.

Bye,

Philipp

2007/9/10, Erik Moeller <erik at wikimedia.org>:
> http://quality.wikimedia.org/
>
> User: Reader
> Password: qareader
>
> Do not pass it on quite yet, but please feel free to make basic edits
> or layout improvements & do provide feedback here or off-list.
>
> Plan:
>
> 1) At least two beta sites will be set up using the FlaggedRevs
> extension[1] in two different configurations; these will contain some
> English language and some German language demonstration content.
> Repeat, DEMONSTRATION CONTENT ONLY. NO REAL WIKIMEDIA PROJECT.
>
> Philipp Birken from WM-DE and I will provide the configuration for
> these sites to Brion, who is expected to conclude a security review of
> the extension this week.
>
> The page [[Wikiquality]] on Meta will also describe these
> configurations, along with some other general info. It is currently
> non-existent (do not report).
>
> 2) These FlaggedRevs demo sites will go live probably next week. I
> suggest a target date of September 20; Sue will finalize this.
>
> Should there be major security or scalability concerns even for a
> demo, we can roll back.
>
> 3) quality.wikimedia.org: The point is to have portals for major
> quality initiatives in Wikipedia and other projects, and an associated
> open mailing list. (The list is currently still closed, as it was used
> for discussions about FlaggedRevs development.)
>
> These portals should be fairly basic & only point to information
> elsewhere. I expect that we will give interested people from the
> community & translators access to editing quality.wikimedia.org.
> Ironically the site itself would benefit from a FlaggedRevs
> configuration, which we may very well put into place if it turns out
> to be useful.
>
> Originally I wanted to co-launch this with the beta, but New Scientist
> is going to publish a larger piece about Wikimedia quality initiatives
> on Thursday, so I thought it would be good to have it up by then,
> since it also very visibly suggests making a donation & we don't know
> if we might see a bit of a media cascade.
>
> I can quickly fix up some links (link to an off-site demo of
> FlaggedRevs for now), open the site & list, and announce them to
> various Wikimedia mailing lists before Thursday. If this is _not_
> desired, please let me know, and I'll email New Scientist & ask them
> to remove the link. But IMHO there is no real risk in going live with
> it. Even if we don't take the beta live as expected it'll be a useful
> site to have.
>
> 4) If there are no remaining security or scalability concerns, after a
> declared date, which I suggest to be November 20 (which is also the
> middle of the fundraiser and hence a good attention-grabbing moment),
> we'll give Wikimedia project/language communities the _option_ of
> turning on the extension. To do so, they'll have to point to a
> consensus or vote that also explains the configuration they would like
> to use (the extension is very flexible).
>
> I expect that de.wp already has such a consensus so they will probably
> go live at that date. It may well be possible for en.wp to obtain a
> consensus during the beta, in which case it would launch at the same
> time. But IMHO the correct answer for press inquiries of "who will be
> using the extension" is "this will be determined during the beta, most
> likely the German Wikipedia will be among the first".
>
> BugZilla will be used to track these site requests, as was done for
> semi-protection.
>
> Once again, the above date will be finalized by Sue.
>
> Comments?
>
> [1] http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:FlaggedRevs
>
> --
> Toward Peace, Love & Progress:
> Erik
>
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