As an attempt to revive and reform the new project policy page on meta
(http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/New_project_policy), the content scope task
force at strategy.wikimedia.org has written a new draft.
Feedback, additions and changes to that page is very much appreciated. The
draft is found
Is this an old thread or a new one that I missed? I'd like to read the
rest of the thread if it is still available.
Carcharoth
Oops, I appear to have answered a mail of Marc Riddell's from 17
September 2008 - for reasons best known to my email client. It will of
course all be online in
On 04/29/2010 03:35 PM, Gregory Maxwell wrote:
http://flaggedrevs.labs.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page
Can you point me to where it was decided to admonish new editors with
statements like Changes will be published once an authorized user reviews
them. (in all red) after they make an
On 30 April 2010 19:10, Carcharoth carcharot...@googlemail.com wrote:
Is this an old thread or a new one that I missed? I'd like to read the
rest of the thread if it is still available.
It's older than usual, yes :-)
Those wanting to follow the original discussion can find it in October 2008:
On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 2:24 PM, William Pietri will...@scissor.com wrote:
My understanding, possibly incorrect, is that we can't do that. Because
most pages for non-logged-in users are served from caches, most requests
don't make it to the point where we can easily show different versions
of
On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 3:03 PM, Aryeh Gregor
simetrical+wikil...@gmail.com wrote:
On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 2:24 PM, William Pietri will...@scissor.com wrote:
My understanding, possibly incorrect, is that we can't do that. Because
most pages for non-logged-in users are served from caches, most
On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 4:34 PM, Gregory Maxwell gmaxw...@gmail.com wrote:
This already happens when users edit. Otherwise anons would never be
able to get the new messages indicator.
I stand corrected.
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On 04/30/2010 01:34 PM, Gregory Maxwell wrote:
but the general point
remains -- you can set a cookie for an unregistered user and it will
work as you'd like, causing the user to skip the Squid cache on all
pages until the cookie expires.
This already happens when users edit.
On 04/30/2010 04:11 PM, Carcharoth wrote:
But seriously, the issue of encouraging people to edit is crucial.
Those who want to edit for malicious reasons will nearly always be
prepared to jump through hoops, and those most likely to be
discouraged by extra hoops to jump through will include
