William Pietri wrote: > On 03/04/2010 10:57 AM, Jussi-Ville Heiskanen wrote: > >> Purely as a point of fact it is simply inaccurate that the >> 20 implementations of flagged revs and patrolled edits >> across the other wikies than English Wikipedia are >> monolithically identical. I know this firsthand. >> >> > > Sorry if I gave that impression. Indeed, I have direct evidence > otherwise. When I run low on things to worry about, I pull up the > spreadsheet I built showing the wide config variations in uses of > FlaggedRevs. Not that it's worrying on its own; it's nice to see people > using it and adapting it locally. It just means that potential bugs are > harder to spot. > > All I was trying to say is that the requested approach for the English > Wikipedia, called Flagged Protection, differs from the existing uses. > And as such, follows the pattern of all the other existing implementations; in so much as they differ from each others. So throwing this conformance with established implementations nature into the conversation is not too significant.
For there to be a significant divergence from the pattern of adapting as we go, there really needs to be a qualitative difference to the divergence, not just a noting down that the English Wikipedia like all others, diverges. Yours, Jussi-Ville Heiskanen _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
