-------------------------------------------------- From: "Chad" <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, January 19, 2010 4:18 PM To: "Happy-melon" <[email protected]>; "Wikimedia developers" <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [Wikitech-l] Hiding Special:UnwatchedPages
> On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 11:11 AM, Happy-melon <[email protected]> > wrote: >> I assume that you haven't been following the Drama Of The Week on enwiki? >> In the latest episode, MZMcBride summons down the wrath of the gods by >> giving a banned editor and prolific Wikipedia critic a list of 20 >> unwatched >> biographies; the banned editor uses an army of socks to start a >> "breaching >> experiment", vandalising the articles in interesting ways and monitoring >> how >> long they remain unreverted; and MZMcBride resigns admin status *again* >> in >> the face of a third ArbCom case over the whole issue. >> >> I agree with a lot of MZ's reasoning ([1]) about the uselessness of >> "number >> of watchers" as a metric for vandal risk. But this is probably the worst >> time in the past two years to be thinking about opening up >> Special:UnwatchedPages. >> >> --HM >> > > Last time I checked, we're a separate project from enwiki (thank god). > If we change the software default, we're certainly free to do so. Just > like enwiki is certainly free to request a config change to re-lock it; > which I'd expect they'd do. > > -Chad > We are indeed, and we can do whatever we like to the software defaults. But changing config settings on WMF wikis is a whole different kettle of fish, and that's what we're really talking about here. Changing things on a whim and then requiring communities to build a consensus **to change them back** is not how we generally approach site configuration. --HM _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
