Good-o. That's what I also understood your & Erik's emails to mean :-) So - with regards to my original question....? In summary it was: Now that the new versions (AFTv5) of the tool are being tested on 0.3% of en.wp, can you turn off the now-obsolete "5-star rating" version currently running on the remaining 99.7% of en.wp, please?
-Liam Peace, love & metadata On 23/12/2011, at 0:11, Oliver Keyes <[email protected]> wrote: > That's correct, Tom. 0.3 percent of the English language Wikipedia is being > used as a testbed for the *rest* of the English-language Wikipedia; a > tertiary testbed, since we've already run things through on both prototype > and labs :). Obviously if we decide "lets deploy to other projects" we'd > take localised concerns into account, and not just jump in. With the last > version, interestingly, we had several projects *request* that we switch it > on. > > On 22 December 2011 13:02, Tom Morris <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On Thu, Dec 22, 2011 at 02:56, Jussi-Ville Heiskanen >> <[email protected]> wrote: >>> Sorry, did a double-take there. Tell me I read that wrong, please! My >>> eyes must be deceiving me or my reading comprehension not being >>> quite up to the task right now... But some weird brainfart made me >>> read that in such a way that you were suggesting that the english >>> language wikipedia would be used as a test bed for what should be >>> deployed side-wide. Please tell me I am hallucinating, misreading >>> you grotesquely, or there is some other clear communication disconnect! >>> >> >> Site-wide means "on all of English" not "on all projects" (which would >> be "cross-wiki" or "cross-project"). Currently AFT5 is deployed on a >> subset of enwp articles (about 11,000) for testing. From what I can >> gather, there is a fairly long process of testing planned to see >> whether the deployment on English is an improvement on the existing >> AFT. After that process, if it is deemed to be an improvement and the >> objections have been fixed, then it is possible to offer it to other >> wikis. >> >> The small deployment on English will be used to inform the decision as >> to whether to roll it out fully on English, not on all projects. >> >> It's a fairly major change, so I think the Foundation are (correctly) >> being conservative in their rollout on English, and being careful to >> collect data to inform a community decision in the future. It's not >> suddenly going to turn up on projects other than enwiki without a lot >> more discussion and consultation. >> >> But then I've just been watching the process quietly from the >> sidelines: I may have got this all wrong. >> >> -- >> Tom Morris >> <http://tommorris.org/> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> foundation-l mailing list >> [email protected] >> Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l >> > > > > -- > Oliver Keyes > Community Liaison, Product Development > Wikimedia Foundation > _______________________________________________ > 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
