Some issue were waiting on the big scap, which has since happened thanks to Tim (along with the syncing of fixes).
-Aaron Schulz > Date: Sat, 20 Jun 2009 08:47:03 +1000 > From: thepmacco...@gmail.com > To: wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org > CC: foundatio...@lists.wikimedia.org > Subject: Re: [Wikitech-l] flagged revisions > > Hi all, > It's been 10 days since the last note on flagged revisions, which is > sufficiently important to warrant a follow up at this point in my view. I'll > try and focus the questions a bit in order not to pester, but with the > intention of helping things forward; > see https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=18244 for bug details. > * Flagged Revisions is approved for use on the English Wikipedia, my > understanding is that there really isn't that much technical work still to > do on the extension - is this true? > * Is there anything a regular editor such as myself can do to help > prioritise this in the hearts, minds and fingers of our wonderful > developers? > * Personally, I believe this function to be one of the most important > matters before the foundation currently, I further believe that this view is > relatively widely held (and sure, widely reviled too - but this is a wiki, > right!) - I've copied foundation-l in on this note with the intention of > further general discussion occurring there, and bug-specific chat only on > the wiki-tech list, I hope this is an appropriate use of resources :-) > I've offered appreciation, a dollop of charm, and a little bit of money to > try and keep this moving forward.... I'm not sure I'm above offering sex, so > please throw me a bone for the sake of the decorum of these lists, if > nothing else :-) > best, > Peter, > PM. > > On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 12:46 PM, Gregory Maxwell <gmaxw...@gmail.com>wrote: > > > Am I confused or didn't enwp approved flagged revisions, but then it > > was held up due to "purely technical reasons" ... what is this crap > > now? > > > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > > From: K. Peachey <p858sn...@yahoo.com.au> > > Date: Tue, Jun 9, 2009 at 10:29 PM > > Subject: Re: [Wikitech-l] flagged revisions > > To: Wikimedia developers <wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org> > > > > > > On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 12:08 PM, private musings<thepmacco...@gmail.com> > > wrote: > > > with apologies for re-vitalising a slightly old thread -I have a couple > > of > > > follow ups, which it'd be great to try and make some progress on.... > > > My understanding is that Aaron (whom I haven't 'met' - so hello!) has > > > completed work on a test configuration of flagged revisions - I hope it's > > > appropraite for me to ask directly on this list whether or not Aaron > > > considers this development complete? (my understanding is that the > > extension > > > is pretty much ready to go?) > > > There is understandably considerable interest in the timeframe for > > > installing flagged revisions, I would hope it would be a positive step to > > > set some timeframes a bit tighter than 'hopefully by wikimedia' ;-) - is > > > this list an appropriate context for such discusison, and if so > > (hopefullly) > > > - could someone appropriately empowered flesh out the next steps a bit > > more, > > > and maybe try and establish a timetable of sorts? > > > My intention in posting about this every so often is to ensure that such > > an > > > important development doesn't sort of slip through the cracks - I think > > > communication on this matter has to date been ok, but not great - it'll > > be > > > cool to improve it a bit :-) > > > cheers, > > > Peter, > > > PM. > > The implementations depend on a per wiki basis depending on consensus, > > for example, wikinews and a few others such as the German Wikipedia > > already run it. > > > > The en.wiki is currently also looking at a slightly modified version > > nicked named "Flagged Protections" which is basically designed to work > > the same way protection does, articles are only covered by it when > > protected to a certain level. > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Wikitech-l mailing list > > Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org > > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l > > > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l _________________________________________________________________ Microsoft brings you a new way to search the web. Try Bing™ now http://www.bing.com?form=MFEHPG&publ=WLHMTAG&crea=TEXT_MFEHPG_Core_tagline_try bing_1x1 _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
