Thanks heaps for the update, Brion. I must confess to having harboured hopes that we might have been able to get flagged revisions enabled perhaps a little quicker. Given the 3 month or so timeframe, is there any merit in creating some sort of fixed (or flexible) schedule - is the delay due to extra bits and bobs of coding being required? - Is a reasonably straightforward (ie. understandable by idiots like me!) explanation for the nature of the ongoing work possible? (it'd be nice to shout a bit about this from the wiki rooftops, but hard without being sure what's going on.....)
Would some targetted donations help flagged revisions to be enabled at all? I feel it's a least a possibility that those who have long expressed a desire to work with the functionality might be willing to throw in a buck or two to bring the schedule forward / keep momentum - I'd certainly kick in $50 or $100. (hey I'd even be happy to split it 50/50 between the developer who does the work, and the foundation ;-) Hopefully we're at least fairly close to getting the test config. on en.labs - is this a suitable place for interested english wikipedia community members to come and have a play / offer feedback etc. - or is this really more of a techincal sort of thing? Sorry about the tons of questions - I'm asking so many, because I'd like to try and whip the relavent pages on the english wikipedia into shape so they can communicate fully and clearly where we're at... :-) cheers, Peter PM. On Wed, May 20, 2009 at 2:22 AM, Brion Vibber <[email protected]> wrote: > Quick update: > > * Yes, we do plan to roll out an English Wikipedia test setup for > Flagged Revs. > > * There's not yet a fixed schedule for it, but I'd like to see it up and > running in production before Wikimania. :) [August] > > * Right now we're running round tidying up general things, getting the > 1.15 release set up, and prepping to get our live sites updated to > development trunk -- nice things are afoot like a total upgrade to the > preferences backend which Werdna has done, yay! > > * As we get back up to speed, we'll want to coordinate w/ Aaron to > confirm that we've got a configuration planned and that it'll look good, > and get that test config on en.labs.wikimedia.org and test.wikipedia for > a while before we roll it to en.wikipedia. > > I'd also like to see folks ponder a bit on the final terminology for > things -- we'd also like to roll out the Drafts extension (for saving > your in-progress edit page in the background so you can return to it if > you accidentally close it or your browser crashes), but Flagged Revs > also uses the 'draft' terminology sometimes. We want to make sure we're > not going to be looking too confusing having both of those things in the > system. > > -- brion > > > El 5/12/09 5:20 PM, private musings escribió: > > Hi all, > > > > The 'flagged revisions' bug ( > > https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=18244 ) - has, by my > reading > > been 'reopened' for 2 weeks now. Being as this is a reasonably big deal > in > > the wiki scheme of things, I presume it's possible that matters are being > > discussed, or otherwise moved forward in some way, behind the scenes, but > at > > this point, I thought it was probably worth making sure that this hasn't > > just been sort of forgotten. > > > > I think the enabling of flagged revisions on the english wikipedia is a > very > > important, positive step for the project, and hope it might be acted upon > in > > reasonably good order as a high priority. > > > > Apologies if such prodding is not a great fit on this list - don't mean > to > > bug anyone (geddit?) ;-) > > > > cheers, > > > > Peter, > > PM. > > > > > > > > On Tue, May 5, 2009 at 3:55 PM, private musings<[email protected] > >wrote: > > > >> Hi all, > >> > >> It seems to me that there's been sterling work on the 'flagged > revisions' > >> front - with the bulk of the credit due to User:Cenarium over on en, and > the > >> various folk working away over there. > >> > >> With that in mind, could I please encourage a dev.s attention to; > >> > >> https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=18244 > >> > >> Hopefully we can enable the extension as soon as possible :-) > >> > >> best, > >> > >> Peter, > >> PM. > >> > > _______________________________________________ > > Wikitech-l mailing list > > [email protected] > > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l > > > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l > _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
