I actually think that anons should be the last to gget new features if at all possible: they are the group least informed about projects' internal workings and thus it's hard for them to report problems.
On Sat, May 17, 2014 at 3:37 PM, John <phoenixoverr...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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 > -- Best regards, Max Semenik ([[User:MaxSem]]) _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
