2009/9/28 Sue Gardner <[email protected]>: > 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.) _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
