There was no general consensus for what people though they were voting for, nor is there any sure way to predict what they will now say, since a great many of the practical details have only been clarified in the last few days upon seeing the implementation.
Now that we actually have a proposal, it needs to be approved On Sat, May 22, 2010 at 9:13 PM, Rob Lanphier <ro...@robla.net> wrote: > On Sat, May 22, 2010 at 2:20 PM, James Alexander <jameso...@gmail.com>wrote: > >> Ok if that's the case it makes me a bit less worried on that front though I >> am still confused. You say "autoreviewer" but a lot of others are using >> "autoconfirmed" which is obviously very different and much broader. Is this >> for those with a separate autoreview flag or are all autoconfirmed users >> getting this ability? >> > > Here's what we're currently on track to implement: > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Flagged_protection_and_patrolled_revisions/Trial > > What this means is that there would not actually be a separate "autoreview" > group. Autoconfirmed users would be given the access rights. I made this > simplification because I wasn't able to find any documentation of any clear > decision on this front. > > Since that time, a debate was started over here: > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Requests_for_comment/Flagged_revisions_trial > > Listed in there is documentation of a couple of polls that were run. I'm > reading through those polls to try to understand where the support and > opposition comes from. Needless to say, we need to wrap up that debate > before I can explain further how this is going to work. If you have > opinions, please post them there. > > Thanks > Rob > _______________________________________________ > WikiEN-l mailing list > WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org > To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l > -- David Goodman, Ph.D, M.L.S. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:DGG _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l