No. This may not be ideal but that is certainly worse. Damn the torpedos!
~A On Monday, June 14, 2010, William Pietri <will...@scissor.com> wrote: > On 06/14/2010 01:12 AM, Cenarium sysop wrote: >> On Mon, Jun 14, 2010 at 7:57 AM, Cenarium >> sysop<cenarium.sy...@gmail.com>wrote: >> >>> You'll soon have your answer here: >>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Reviewing#Proposing_a_delay_to_trial_implementation. >>> There are many outstanding issues to address and still quite a deal of >>> preparation to be made. Again people didn't get involved until a launch date >>> was fixed, it may be hard to define one in advance, but that's how it is. >> We could also implement as scheduled, but refrain from using pending changes >> in mainspace until we're ready. This way, reviewers could start testing in >> Wikipedia namespace before it's rolled out on articles. The issue of using >> level 2 PC-protection is not resolved yet, so we may request a configuration >> change if there's consensus for not using it. >> > > I am going to stay quite thoroughly out of the discussion as to > community readiness or the actual date; the community asked for this > ASAP, and if the community changes its mind and wants it enabled later, > that's entirely up to the community. > > However, I do want to say two things. > > One, delaying isn't free. There has been a lot of work in prep for this, > and some of it will have to be done again for a new date, especially on > the ops and press sides. If we cancel the June 15th rollout, then once > the community is happy that things are sorted, we'll have to go back and > find a new date that works for the FlaggedRevs people, the ops people, > and the communications people, and hope that we can get time for > reporters on Jimmy's calendar again. > > Two, the community has been asking for this ASAP all year, so any > request to delay has to be clear enough and strong enough to obviously > override that long-established and widely supported consensus. So far > it's 7 to 5, which is neither clear nor strong. > > > Regardless, we will be rolling out the FlaggedRevs code changes to all > wikis tonight as scheduled. That should have no effect on enwiki and > hopefully small effects on current FlaggedRevs users, so there's no > reason to delay that part of it. > > William > > _______________________________________________ > WikiEN-l mailing list > WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org > To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l > -- ~A _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
