Re: [WikiEN-l] Flagged Revisions trial proposal and vote

2009-01-28 Thread Gwern Branwen
On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 9:09 AM, David Gerard wrote: > FWIW, I did a radio interview yesterday about flagged revisions, on > Chris Evans' show on BBC Radio 2: > > http://neurolysis.blogspot.com/2009/01/david-gerard-on-chris-evans-bbc-radio-2.html > > (cheers to Chris Down for the transcript) > > H

Re: [WikiEN-l] Flagged Revisions trial proposal and vote

2009-01-28 Thread David Gerard
FWIW, I did a radio interview yesterday about flagged revisions, on Chris Evans' show on BBC Radio 2: http://neurolysis.blogspot.com/2009/01/david-gerard-on-chris-evans-bbc-radio-2.html (cheers to Chris Down for the transcript) Hopefully I set out the controversy neutrally and accurately :-) -

Re: [WikiEN-l] Flagged Revisions trial proposal and vote

2009-01-28 Thread Andrew Gray
2009/1/28 Jay Litwyn : > Will these things be applied differentially to talk pages and articles? I don't believe flagged-revisions was ever anticipated to be used on talkpages (or other "internal" pages) even in a full-scale implementation -- - Andrew Gray andrew.g...@dunelm.org.uk __

Re: [WikiEN-l] Flagged Revisions trial proposal and vote

2009-01-28 Thread Jay Litwyn
Will these things be applied differentially to talk pages and articles? ___ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l

Re: [WikiEN-l] Flagged Revisions trial proposal and vote

2009-01-27 Thread Ray Saintonge
The Cunctator wrote: > Funny how it supposedly closes tomorrow but it's already done and archived. > I've never liked the idea that a poll should ever be closed. It would be enough to make the subject matter implementable when certain pre-defined thresholds are reached. If at some later tim

Re: [WikiEN-l] Flagged Revisions trial proposal and vote

2009-01-26 Thread Wilhelm Schnotz
Probably because of jimbo's comment On 1/26/09, The Cunctator wrote: > Funny how it supposedly closes tomorrow but it's already done and archived. > > On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 5:44 PM, David Gerard wrote: > >> Proposed trial: >> >> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Flagged_revisions/Trial >>

Re: [WikiEN-l] Flagged Revisions trial proposal and vote

2009-01-26 Thread The Cunctator
Funny how it supposedly closes tomorrow but it's already done and archived. On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 5:44 PM, David Gerard wrote: > Proposed trial: > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Flagged_revisions/Trial > > The voting page: > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Flagged_revis

Re: [WikiEN-l] Flagged Revisions trial proposal and vote

2009-01-23 Thread Andrew Gray
2009/1/23 K. Peachey : >>now that it has been successfully tested elsewhere. > Where and what was capacity was the site? i know know about the > backlogs and such it would cause on somewhere huge like en.wiki even > with all the autoconfirmed users being "reviewers" or whatever the > term that they

Re: [WikiEN-l] Flagged Revisions trial proposal and vote

2009-01-22 Thread Gwern Branwen
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Re: [WikiEN-l] Flagged Revisions trial proposal and vote

2009-01-22 Thread K. Peachey
>now that it has been successfully tested elsewhere. Where and what was capacity was the site? i know know about the backlogs and such it would cause on somewhere huge like en.wiki even with all the autoconfirmed users being "reviewers" or whatever the term that they are using for it is now. _

Re: [WikiEN-l] Flagged Revisions trial proposal and vote

2009-01-22 Thread Gwern Branwen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 8:54 PM, Nathan wrote: > Actually, Jimmy wrote on his talkpage that he considers the proposal closed > and successful, and that he intends to ask that the extension be enabled. He > also wrote that any of those in the 40% tha

Re: [WikiEN-l] Flagged Revisions trial proposal and vote

2009-01-22 Thread Nathan
Actually, Jimmy wrote on his talkpage that he considers the proposal closed and successful, and that he intends to ask that the extension be enabled. He also wrote that any of those in the 40% that opposed the trial who wished to should formulate a compromise proposal in 7 days, to be voted upon wi

Re: [WikiEN-l] Flagged Revisions trial proposal and vote

2009-01-22 Thread Wilhelm Schnotz
Yep! You got it exactly :D On 1/22/09, K. Peachey wrote: > On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 10:12 AM, Thomas Dalton > wrote: >> 2009/1/23 Wilhelm Schnotz : >>> Ah ok! I figured something was up as we never have polls that end so >>> fast! Thanks for posting here as I did not know otherwise! >> >> If you'

Re: [WikiEN-l] Flagged Revisions trial proposal and vote

2009-01-22 Thread K. Peachey
On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 10:12 AM, Thomas Dalton wrote: > 2009/1/23 Wilhelm Schnotz : >> Ah ok! I figured something was up as we never have polls that end so >> fast! Thanks for posting here as I did not know otherwise! > > If you've managed to miss the whole debate this long, count yourself lucky!

Re: [WikiEN-l] Flagged Revisions trial proposal and vote

2009-01-22 Thread Wilhelm Schnotz
I guess tomorrow I shall flip a coin and vote ;). On 1/22/09, Thomas Dalton wrote: > 2009/1/23 Wilhelm Schnotz : >> Ah ok! I figured something was up as we never have polls that end so >> fast! Thanks for posting here as I did not know otherwise! > > If you've managed to miss the whole debate thi

Re: [WikiEN-l] Flagged Revisions trial proposal and vote

2009-01-22 Thread Thomas Dalton
2009/1/23 Wilhelm Schnotz : > Ah ok! I figured something was up as we never have polls that end so > fast! Thanks for posting here as I did not know otherwise! If you've managed to miss the whole debate this long, count yourself lucky! ___ WikiEN-l mail

Re: [WikiEN-l] Flagged Revisions trial proposal and vote

2009-01-22 Thread Wilhelm Schnotz
Ah ok! I figured something was up as we never have polls that end so fast! Thanks for posting here as I did not know otherwise! On 1/22/09, Thomas Dalton wrote: > 2009/1/22 Wilhelm Schnotz : >> That is a really short time period for a poll! > > The poll started weeks ago, I think David's just let

Re: [WikiEN-l] Flagged Revisions trial proposal and vote

2009-01-22 Thread Thomas Dalton
2009/1/22 Wilhelm Schnotz : > That is a really short time period for a poll! The poll started weeks ago, I think David's just letting people know it's about to finish. (It seems the closing date was only just decided on.) ___ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiE

Re: [WikiEN-l] Flagged Revisions trial proposal and vote

2009-01-22 Thread Wilhelm Schnotz
That is a really short time period for a poll! On 1/22/09, Falcorian wrote: >> >> I think you have a type in your email. The linked page says: >> >> "The Poll will be closed on Friday, January 23, 2009, at 24:00 UTC" >> >> So that would be in ~24 hours, not ~48 as the 24th would suggest. >> >> --

Re: [WikiEN-l] Flagged Revisions trial proposal and vote

2009-01-22 Thread Falcorian
> > I think you have a type in your email. The linked page says: > > "The Poll will be closed on Friday, January 23, 2009, at 24:00 UTC" > > So that would be in ~24 hours, not ~48 as the 24th would suggest. > > --Falcorian And of course, I have a typo in my spelling of typo... :-/ --Falcorian __

Re: [WikiEN-l] Flagged Revisions trial proposal and vote

2009-01-22 Thread Falcorian
On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 2:44 PM, David Gerard wrote: > Proposed trial: > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Flagged_revisions/Trial > > The voting page: > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Flagged_revisions/Trial/Votes > > Closes Fri 24 Jan at 24:00! (I guess that's Sat Jan 25,

[WikiEN-l] Flagged Revisions trial proposal and vote

2009-01-22 Thread David Gerard
Proposed trial: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Flagged_revisions/Trial The voting page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Flagged_revisions/Trial/Votes Closes Fri 24 Jan at 24:00! (I guess that's Sat Jan 25, 00:00.) - d. ___ WikiE