I believe that I've seen discussions of RC patrolling on ENWP too, although I can't recall specifics. I am not familiar with the original discussion, although my first guess is that the experienced patrollers were surprised and that the surprise factored into their opposition to the change.
Starting an RfC regarding this would require some effort, but if other communities are finding that the tool is useful, then I'll +1 the hope that ENWP reconsiders this. Similar to Amir's comment, I'm thinking that having participation in the discussion from someone like a WMF Community Relations person or someone who could offer training might be useful so that people can familiarize themselves with the option before making a decision. I haven't used the tool myself, but in general I prefer that people have "informed consent". Pine ( https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Pine ) On Tue, Mar 12, 2019 at 5:00 PM James Forrester <jforres...@wikimedia.org> wrote: > 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 _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
