Here is an interesting deployment idea, roll out but leave as opt-in for a period of time, after a month or so, set as default for anons and new accounts, During the whole process keep track of who has enabled it and then disabled it, vs never enabled it. After a period of time move everyone who hasnt specifically disabled the viewer to have the setting as default.
This would achieve several different things all at the same time, enabling wider spread testing/debugging, and a phased deployment process that should minimize negative user impact as much as possible. As I have seen way too many "features" pushed out to the general pubic long before they should have been. WMF wikis take mediawiki and wikitext along with templates and the parser and make them do some really odd things. It doesnt matter how much testing you do, quirks will pop up. In a phased deploy process that utilizes both watchlist and central notices this should keep the fallout to minimum. _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
