[Foundation-l] Pending Changes development update: September 27

Tue Sep 28 21:42:27 UTC 2010

2010/9/28 Risker <risker.wp at gmail.com>:
> Ummm, no, Erik. The objective was to have consensus to KEEP it on, not
> consensus to turn it off, and that was always the agreement. There was
> never, until the lack of consensus to keep it on became clear, a direct
> suggestion that we'd be stuck with it.

Anne, there are no obvious answers here. Two thirds of the community
told us "Please keep this feature enabled", some of whom said "we
should expand this to all (BLP|high-risk articles|whatever)". Jimmy
posted interpreting this as direction-setting for continued testing
and development, and asking us to provide a development timetable,
which we did. Had we then said "Oh, sorry, no consensus for anything,
we'll just turn it all off for now", we'd have a different set of
people heaping blame on WMF right now. At the end of the day it's just
a feature that we're continuing to improve, and it's up to the enwiki
community to figure out how/why/where it wants to use it. We have no
stake in this, other than wanting to support the project as best we
can.
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Erik Möller
Deputy Director, Wikimedia Foundation

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