I checked on it today and saw that this bug is marked resolved. Tisza, is it working to hu.WP's satisfaction now?
Birgitte SB --- On Fri, 8/28/09, Tisza Gergő <[email protected]> wrote: > From: Tisza Gergő <[email protected]> > Subject: [Foundation-l] FlaggedRevs on Hungarian Wikipedia still not working > To: [email protected] > Cc: [email protected] > Date: Friday, August 28, 2009, 6:24 PM > The autoreview feature for > FlaggedRevs does not work in the Hungarian > Wikipedia because of a configuration problem with a group > name. This > causes a lot of extra work for the patrollers, and a lot of > extra > waiting for everyone else for their edits to appear. > > It has been about forty days since I filed a bug about > this; in the > meantime, I asked twice for help on wikitech-l (not to > mention the > several personal emails and IRC messages I and other > Hungarian editors > sent). After my first wikitech-l mail, there was a short > and > unsuccessful attempt to fix the problem without actually > understanding > what we asked for; before and after, in those seven weeks, > nothing > happened. > > This is very disappointing. To fix the bug, one would need > to replace > all occurrences of 'confirmed' with 'trusted' in the huwiki > flagrev > config file - that takes about 20 seconds. If one wanted to > be > thorough about it and move users from the old group to the > new, one > would need to construct an appropriate SQL query - maybe 5 > more > minutes. There are about a hundred patrollers on > hu.wikipedia > (including admins). If we suppose they only have to work > one extra > minute a day each (a very unrealistic lower estimation), > that adds up > to about sixty hours. Which is about a thousand times > twenty seconds. > > Is staff time really a thousand times more valuable than > volunteer > time, so that no one can be bothered to make this trivial > fix, even if > many hours of other people's time could be spared? I'm > aware it is > summer, and Wikimania is going on, and everyone has a lot > on their > hands, but even so I can't believe none of the people with > shell > access can find a minute to make the fix.. > > Letting the time of the most active community members go to > waste like > this is not only very discouraging them, and not only does > it > undermine their trust in the revision flagging system > (which proved to > be a very valuable anti-vandalism tool, but it was always > hard to get > enough people involved), it also creates a rift between WMF > and the > local community. People perceive that the foundation does > not respect > their volunteer work at all, and it is only quick when it > is creating > problems (their previous contact with WMF was when someone > shot down > the statistics script that ran with community consensus, > without as > much as a question or comment), and not when it should be > solving > them. > > If you want to broaden participation and involve more > people into > meta-projects, start with actually caring about issues like > these. And > now please, please find someone to finally fix bug 19885. > > _______________________________________________ > foundation-l mailing list > [email protected] > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l > _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
