On Sat, 9 Mar 2019 at 11:50, bawolff <bawolff...@gmail.com> wrote: > In regards to wgUseRCPatrol - I suspect (but don't know) that originally > that was disabled on enwiki as a performance thing. If it was a performance > concern, that's probably irrelevant at this point. >
Sadly, no. It was enabled as a new feature to help communities do their patrolling work. A small handful on enwiki power users complained in the hours after it was deployed about the "disruption" (the appearance of a ! on edits in Recent Changes), and rather than help the community adjust to the new software and find it useful, the feature was disabled, effectively permanently. In the subsequent years, many English Wikipedians have complained about the lack of support for their work on Recent Changes patrolling, but there's been no effort to struggle through the community arguments to (re-)enable this tool, I believe. It would be lovely if we could enable this feature on the English Wikipedia given how useful many other communities have found this, but I don't expect it to happen. J. -- *James D. Forrester* (he/him <http://pronoun.is/he> or they/themself <http://pronoun.is/they/.../themself>) Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/> _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
