On Fri, May 21, 2010 at 5:38 PM, Rob Lanphier <ro...@wikimedia.org> wrote: > implementation, and there's no "flagging" in the proposed configuration. > Additionally, "protection" in our world implies "no editing" whereas this [snip] > - Must not introduce obsolete terminology (e.g. there's no "flagging" in > our proposed deployment)
I guess I'm confused, because I see flagging all over this but you're saying there is none? To the best of my understanding: The flags are what distinguishes approved revisions from non-approved revisions and on designated pages controls which revisions are displayed by default to anons. This is mostly the same way that flagged revisions work elsewhere, the difference in functionality is that rather than the flagging-effect being enabled across an entire project or namespace it is controlled through the protection configuration mechanism on a page by page basis. > Additionally, "protection" in our world implies "no editing" whereas this The protection interface controls and has long a number of things related to the permissions granted to manipulate a page. The same protection interface allows a page to be "move protected" for example, which doesn't do anything related to _editing_ but instead prevents the page from being moved to a new name. Following that mode, this feature enables the protection of the flagging process on pages which users deem require that level of protection— just as there as is the case for the other protective modes. or as described by the proposal on English Wikipedia which was approved by hundreds of contributors: "Flagged protection is a specific use of flagged revisions which provides an alternative to the current page protection feature: instead of disallowing editing for certain users, editing is allowed, but those edits must be flagged before being displayed to non-registered readers by default." I'm also not clear how "Pending Revisions" would actually fit into the operational dialogue of people working on the site: A: "That trouble maker is back again on [[Cheese]]." B: 'Don't worry, that page has move protection and pending revisions.' A: "Oh, if there are revisions pending I should go flag them... hey, there are no new revisions!" B: "I mean the 'pending revisions' protection level, not that there were actually any revisions pending" A: 'You idiot, call it flag-protection like everyone else.' ;) If people want to lay their thumb by playing with the names— I don't much care. But I do want to make sure some horrible desync about the _actual functionality_ hasn't happened, because saying that there is no flagging and no protection are very alarming claims to me. _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l