Without having formed in opinion either way to what has come out of the trial or the straw polls, I don't understand why there is such importance placed on *technically* disabling the feature. If en.WP doesn't want to use it, why don't they not just move all the articles back to semi-protection? Empty out the pending changes from the on-wiki interface. This would likely have to be done *before* disabling it anyways. Just because the extension is installed doesn't mean it has to be used. I can see no reason why Erik or Danese should be being asked to determine consensus.
I get that this is an important political issue for various people. I don't get why the devs are being focused on. Please let the devs out of the argument. I can't imagine why any of them would want to touch that button with a ten-foot pole until you have clearly decided. Especially as it isn't really necessary for them to be involved in achieving a negative result. Birgitte SB --- On Tue, 9/28/10, Erik Moeller <e...@wikimedia.org> wrote: > From: Erik Moeller <e...@wikimedia.org> > Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] Pending Changes development update: September 27 > To: "Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List" <foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org> > Date: Tuesday, September 28, 2010, 4:42 PM > 2010/9/28 Risker <risker...@gmail.com>: > > Ummm, no, Erik. The objective was to have consensus to > KEEP it on, not > > consensus to turn it off, and that was always the > agreement. There was > > never, until the lack of consensus to keep it on > became clear, a direct > > suggestion that we'd be stuck with it. > > Anne, there are no obvious answers here. Two thirds of the > community > told us "Please keep this feature enabled", some of whom > said "we > should expand this to all (BLP|high-risk > articles|whatever)". Jimmy > posted interpreting this as direction-setting for continued > testing > and development, and asking us to provide a development > timetable, > which we did. Had we then said "Oh, sorry, no consensus for > anything, > we'll just turn it all off for now", we'd have a different > set of > people heaping blame on WMF right now. At the end of the > day it's just > a feature that we're continuing to improve, and it's up to > the enwiki > community to figure out how/why/where it wants to use it. > We have no > stake in this, other than wanting to support the project as > best we > can. > -- > Erik Möller > Deputy Director, Wikimedia Foundation > > Support Free Knowledge: http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Donate > > _______________________________________________ > foundation-l mailing list > foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l > _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
