Re: [WikiEN-l] Flagged Protection update for May 13

2010-05-15 Thread AGK
On 15 May 2010 00:53, Liam Wyatt liamwy...@gmail.com wrote: Yes William, you must remember that the Wikipedias - SERIOUS BUSINESS! proof: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:The_wikipedias_serious.jpg and no sense or humour or lighthearted banter will be tolerated here. That kind of  behavior

Re: [WikiEN-l] Flagged Protection update for May 13

2010-05-14 Thread AGK
Thanks for the update William. It seems like we're getting very close to release now, which is great to hear. On 14 May 2010 06:25, William Pietri will...@scissor.com wrote: we will be getting together with Rob H. and the rest of the ops ninjas to discuss release dates. Are you referring to

Re: [WikiEN-l] Flagged Protection update for May 13

2010-05-14 Thread William Pietri
On 05/14/2010 04:23 AM, AGK wrote: Thanks for the update William. It seems like we're getting very close to release now, which is great to hear. We're very excited, too. On 14 May 2010 06:25, William Pietriwill...@scissor.com wrote: we will be getting together with Rob H. and the rest

Re: [WikiEN-l] Flagged Protection update for May 13

2010-05-14 Thread Emily Monroe
[snip] [2] Except those of you who already have them. But for you, we have a whole wiki that you can go wild on. You can even have a wheel war if you want and we won't tell a soul. Should you really encourage behavior such as wheel warring? Even as a joke? Emily On May 14, 2010, at

Re: [WikiEN-l] Flagged Protection update for May 13

2010-05-14 Thread David Gerard
On 14 May 2010 21:29, Emily Monroe bluecalioc...@me.com wrote: [2] Except those of you who already have them. But for you, we have a whole wiki that you can go wild on. You can even have a wheel war if you want and we won't tell a soul. Should you really encourage behavior such as wheel

Re: [WikiEN-l] Flagged Protection update for May 13

2010-05-14 Thread William Pietri
On 05/14/2010 01:29 PM, Emily Monroe wrote: [2] Except those of you who already have them. But for you, we have a whole wiki that you can go wild on. You can even have a wheel war if you want and we won't tell a soul. Should you really encourage behavior such as wheel warring? Even

Re: [WikiEN-l] Flagged Protection update for May 13

2010-05-14 Thread Emily Monroe
Oh, you're talking about the test wiki? Wow, never mind. My profound apologies. I have trouble interpreting inflection even offline. Emily On May 14, 2010, at 4:07 PM, William Pietri wrote: On 05/14/2010 01:29 PM, Emily Monroe wrote: [2] Except those of you who already have them. But for

Re: [WikiEN-l] Flagged Protection update for May 13

2010-05-14 Thread William Pietri
On 05/14/2010 02:13 PM, Emily Monroe wrote: Oh, you're talking about the test wiki? Wow, never mind. My profound apologies. I have trouble interpreting inflection even offline. No worries! If I had thought somebody were suggesting wheel warring on enwiki, I'd ask 'em about it too.

Re: [WikiEN-l] Flagged Protection update for May 13

2010-05-14 Thread William Pietri
On 05/14/2010 03:34 PM, Ian Woollard wrote: On 14/05/2010, William Pietriwill...@scissor.com wrote: No worries! If I had thought somebody were suggesting wheel warring on enwiki, I'd ask 'em about it too. It's not acceptable *ever*. Ok. What I have learned here is that

Re: [WikiEN-l] Flagged Protection update for May 13

2010-05-14 Thread AGK
It's not acceptable *ever*. I was trying to do a test once and all my test articles disappeared. It had taken a while to set up. At that point you either just leave or wheel war and then leave. All testing stops. Bit of an over-reaction. AGK

Re: [WikiEN-l] Flagged Protection update for May 13

2010-05-14 Thread Emily Monroe
Not really. Wheel warring is a serious offense. Emily On May 14, 2010, at 6:47 PM, AGK wrote: It's not acceptable *ever*. I was trying to do a test once and all my test articles disappeared. It had taken a while to set up. At that point you either just leave or wheel war and then leave.

Re: [WikiEN-l] Flagged Protection update for May 13

2010-05-14 Thread George Herbert
On Fri, May 14, 2010 at 4:53 PM, Liam Wyatt liamwy...@gmail.com wrote: Yes William, you must remember that the Wikipedias - SERIOUS BUSINESS! proof: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:The_wikipedias_serious.jpg and no sense or humour or lighthearted banter will be tolerated here. That kind of  

Re: [WikiEN-l] Flagged Protection update for May 13

2010-05-14 Thread Daniel R. Tobias
On Fri, 14 May 2010 18:50:04 -0500, Emily Monroe wrote: Not really. Wheel warring is a serious offense. Worse than top-posting? :-) -- == Dan == Dan's Mail Format Site: http://mailformat.dan.info/ Dan's Web Tips: http://webtips.dan.info/ Dan's Domain Site: http://domains.dan.info/

[WikiEN-l] Flagged Protection update for May 13

2010-05-13 Thread William Pietri
As requested, here's the weekly Flagged Protection update. As I mentioned last week, we are starting pre-rollout activities while we finish up the last bits of development. Now that the successful launch of the new enwiki UI is out of the way, we will be getting together with Rob H. and the