> Ryan, when i criticized the javascript implementation, i did not intend to be > rude. I see now there might be a lot more considerations besides shocking > visitors and editors, and there seem to have been not so much time too. Maybe > i underestimated the task. > > I am impressed that you tried to process input from 1700 participants. This > effort should not go to waste.... I wonder, if this first step towards > self-defense will be the last. You also mentioned lack of time and i believe > that's always the situation. So, will there be any further evaluation of all > this effort so far, of the decision process and its supervision, and the > technical options for actual taking action, and then maybe deriving a first > provisional guidelines ? >
Yep, that's a good idea. We have a log of what we've been doing, and we have a good amount of code written now as well. It's a good first step in documenting how to do something like this in the future. > I do not imagine a catalog of predefined actions as that could turn out to be > too predictable, but rather a catalog of possible goals and methods to > achieve them, and possible technical implementations. But first before all, a > guidance about the decision process, a supervision HowTo. I think that's the > most difficult part. > I think quite of bit of this can be predefined. > Please understand me right. I don't want to urge. It is only a question, from > a random outsider, and if you think it was useless, just skip it. > It isn't useless. I'm hoping we don't have to black the site out again, but we should be more prepared for this kind of situation in the future. - Ryan _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
