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| 2010 Trial and 2012 Implementation
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The purpose of this page is to coordinate the trial and centralize the discussion on its conduct and evaluation. The trial will last for two months and then a community discussion will decide the future of the implementation, the default being deactivation. Each section must be completed based on the discussions before the trial implementation; for now, they are only brief introductions on the subject to debate.
Conduct
How should the trial be conducted? Should we create control groups?
Flag protection
Creation of a draft policy on when to use flag protection, and when to use normal protection in lights of flag protection, both being limited in scope by the official protection policy.
Reviewing
Creation of a draft policy/guideline Misplaced Pages:Reviewers to cover:
- creation of reviewers
- patrolling
- Reviewing, in case of:
- Semi flag protection
- Intermediary flag protection
- Full flag protection
Content
In addition to reviewing policy/guideline content, other content will need to be created and/or modified.
- For example, the "When you click Save, your changes will immediately become visible to everyone." text will not be true for the flagged protection levels. This text appears at the bottom of every edit page; see http://en.wikipedia.org/MediaWiki:Edittools . We need to have this figured out and ready-to-roll before the trial can begin.
- etc.
Initial article count limits
The initial plan calls for putting an upper bound of 2000 articles under Flagged Protection, adjusting the number up or down depending on how the trial is going. The rationale:
- Performance - we know already from de.wikipedia.org and from watching flaggedrevs.labs.wikimedia.org that this feature can impact performance. So, the engineering team at WMF would like to start small and build up from there
- Community norm development - this gives the community a chance to use this in production in a limited way to start with to get a feel for the feature in the wild.
If performance takes a hit, the ops team may wish to roll back Flagged Protection on a portion of the 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.
Measure of success
measures, metrics for trial success, etc, some can be adapted from Misplaced Pages:Flagged revisions/Trial/Proposed trials#Possible metrics to measure success of trials
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