Wikipedia:Pending changes/Trial

This page serves to document and centralize some issues related to the conduct and evaluation of the trial. The trial will last for two months and then a community discussion will decide the future of the implementation, the default being deactivation.

Development status
(updated 2010-11-15) - We are currently planning to roll out a new version of the FlaggedRevs/Pending Changes wikis to all wikis on Tuesday, November 23 sometime shortly after 3:15pm PST (23:15 UTC). This will have the new reject button, some new Javascript to help complicated diff pages load faster, and many under-the-hood code improvements.

We're currently tracking the list of items we intend to complete in Bugzilla. You can see the latest list in Bugzilla, and get more detailed information on the WMF development project page for Pending Changes.

Initial article count limits
We are initially applying the trial configuration of Flagged Protection to, at most, 2000 articles (though the precise figure could be adjusted as the trial proceeds). This is because:


 * From de.wikipedia.org and flaggedrevs.labs.wikimedia.org shows that Flagged Protection will impact performance.  So the WMF developers would like to start small.
 * The community can get used to this feature with a limited number of articles, instead of letting it loose on any page.

If performance takes a hit, the ops team may roll back Flagged Protection to fewer articles (mechanism TBD), rather than shutting off the feature altogether. If things are going well on both the performance and community norm fronts, the operations team may increase the limit during the trial. There are not currently plans for a limit after the trial period. However, there may need to be some mechanism in place to prevent drastic increases in the number of articles placed under Flagged Protection to safeguard site performance.

Which articles to apply pending changes to
See Pending changes/Queue, Pending_changes and talk pages.

Which criteria to base upon for reviewing
See Reviewing pending changes.

Which criteria for becoming reviewers
See Reviewing pending changes and talk page.

Open policy issues
Discussed on talk pages of Pending changes and Reviewing pending changes.

Open technical issues
Please add these at http://flaggedrevs.labs.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia:FlaggedRevs_issues. (This wiki is locked now.)

Measure of success
Pending changes/Metrics

Terminology
Pending changes/Terminology

Testing
Pending changes/Testing

Permission levels
The full and current version of the configuration can be found at Special:ListGroupRights.

List of bugs
Please list bugs related to this trial here:


 * - Review edit conflicts are not gracefully handled
 * - MediaWiki:Diff-multi should mention the number of users having edited intermediate revisions
 * - Pending changes in related changes
 * - Diffs are taking 10 to 20 seconds to load