Re: [WikiEN-l] Community ready for Pending Changes (nee Flagged Protection)?

2010-06-12 Thread Cenarium sysop
10 days is a bit short for preparation, as most people didn't get involved until a launch date was fixed. It would have been nice if we had had a bit more time, but we should broadly be ready. It's also not impossible that we request some configuration changes before or during the trial. On Wed,

Re: [WikiEN-l] Community ready for Pending Changes (nee Flagged Protection)?

2010-06-12 Thread William Pietri
Just for the sake of understanding better for next time, would people have preferred that we launched later? We gave a date as soon as we were reasonably confident that we could hit a date for the minimum feature set, based on the theory that people wanted this ASAP. But naturally, we could

Re: [WikiEN-l] Community ready for Pending Changes (nee Flagged Protection)?

2010-06-12 Thread William Pietri
Just for the sake of understanding better for next time, would people have preferred that we launched later? We gave a date as soon as we were reasonably confident that we could hit a date for the minimum feature set, based on the theory that people wanted this ASAP. But naturally, we could

Re: [WikiEN-l] Community ready for Pending Changes (nee Flagged Protection)?

2010-06-12 Thread George Herbert
On Sat, Jun 12, 2010 at 10:13 AM, William Pietri will...@scissor.com wrote: Just for the sake of understanding better for next time, would people have preferred that we launched later? We gave a date as soon as we were reasonably confident that we could hit a date for the minimum feature set,

Re: [WikiEN-l] Community ready for Pending Changes (nee Flagged Protection)?

2010-06-12 Thread Amory Meltzer
There was always going to be a bit of Damned if you do, Damned if you don't; It's just unavoidable in a community this large. ~A ___ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit:

Re: [WikiEN-l] Community ready for Pending Changes (nee Flagged Protection)?

2010-06-12 Thread Cenarium sysop
As I'm actively involved in the preparation of the trial, I assure 10 days is short. Most people don't get involved until a launch date is fixed, especially in this situation where we had to wait for a year with nothing coming so people just waited for something consistent to get involved. And now

Re: [WikiEN-l] Community ready for Pending Changes (nee Flagged Protection)?

2010-06-12 Thread Kwan Ting Chan
On 12/06/2010 18:13, William Pietri wrote: Just for the sake of understanding better for next time, would people have preferred that we launched later? We gave a date as soon as we were reasonably confident that we could hit a date for the minimum feature set, based on the theory that people

Re: [WikiEN-l] Community ready for Pending Changes (nee Flagged Protection)?

2010-06-12 Thread David Gerard
On 12 June 2010 22:04, Kwan Ting Chan k...@ktchan.info wrote: On 12/06/2010 18:13, William Pietri wrote: Just for the sake of understanding better for next time, would people have preferred that we launched later? Personally, just launch the damn thing already! +1 - d.

Re: [WikiEN-l] Community ready for Pending Changes (nee Flagged Protection)?

2010-06-12 Thread William Pietri
On 06/12/2010 01:27 PM, Cenarium sysop wrote: On Sat, Jun 12, 2010 at 10:04 PM, Amory Meltzeramorymelt...@gmail.comwrote: There was always going to be a bit of Damned if you do, Damned if you don't; It's just unavoidable in a community this large. As I'm actively involved in the

Re: [WikiEN-l] Community ready for Pending Changes (nee Flagged Protection)?

2010-06-12 Thread William Pietri
On 06/12/2010 02:22 PM, David Gerard wrote: On 12 June 2010 22:04, Kwan Ting Chank...@ktchan.info wrote: On 12/06/2010 18:13, William Pietri wrote: Just for the sake of understanding better for next time, would people have preferred that we launched later? Personally,