And thanks for bringing this up, Jussi! You're usually pretty on the ball, so if you misunderstood what I wrote, it's most likely because my prose was unclear :). I appreciate the chance to correct myself before the poor prose leads others to get the wrong impression too :).
On 22 December 2011 13:11, Oliver Keyes <oke...@wikimedia.org> wrote: > That's correct, Tom. 0.3 percent of the English language Wikipedia is > being used as a testbed for the *rest* of the English-language Wikipedia; > a tertiary testbed, since we've already run things through on both > prototype and labs :). Obviously if we decide "lets deploy to other > projects" we'd take localised concerns into account, and not just jump in. > With the last version, interestingly, we had several projects *request*that > we switch it on. > > > On 22 December 2011 13:02, Tom Morris <t...@tommorris.org> wrote: > >> On Thu, Dec 22, 2011 at 02:56, Jussi-Ville Heiskanen >> <cimonav...@gmail.com> wrote: >> > Sorry, did a double-take there. Tell me I read that wrong, please! My >> > eyes must be deceiving me or my reading comprehension not being >> > quite up to the task right now... But some weird brainfart made me >> > read that in such a way that you were suggesting that the english >> > language wikipedia would be used as a test bed for what should be >> > deployed side-wide. Please tell me I am hallucinating, misreading >> > you grotesquely, or there is some other clear communication disconnect! >> > >> >> Site-wide means "on all of English" not "on all projects" (which would >> be "cross-wiki" or "cross-project"). Currently AFT5 is deployed on a >> subset of enwp articles (about 11,000) for testing. From what I can >> gather, there is a fairly long process of testing planned to see >> whether the deployment on English is an improvement on the existing >> AFT. After that process, if it is deemed to be an improvement and the >> objections have been fixed, then it is possible to offer it to other >> wikis. >> >> The small deployment on English will be used to inform the decision as >> to whether to roll it out fully on English, not on all projects. >> >> It's a fairly major change, so I think the Foundation are (correctly) >> being conservative in their rollout on English, and being careful to >> collect data to inform a community decision in the future. It's not >> suddenly going to turn up on projects other than enwiki without a lot >> more discussion and consultation. >> >> But then I've just been watching the process quietly from the >> sidelines: I may have got this all wrong. >> >> -- >> Tom Morris >> <http://tommorris.org/> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> foundation-l mailing list >> foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org >> Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l >> > > > > -- > Oliver Keyes > Community Liaison, Product Development > Wikimedia Foundation > > -- Oliver Keyes Community Liaison, Product Development Wikimedia Foundation _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l