Pending Changes enwiki trial

This is a WMF project page for the Pending Changes rollout to en.wikipedia.org, completed in 2012. After the trial was ended, pending changes was enabled on a permanent basis.

Pending Changes enwiki trial Deploy FlaggedRevs extension to en.wikipedia.org Start: 2010-07 End: 2011-12 Team members: Aaron Schulz (developer), Chad Horohoe (developer), Rob Lanphier (project manager), Howie Fung (product manager), Brandon Harris (designer), Priyanka Dhanda (developer)

Project status

Result : permanently enabled

After the trial was ended later than scheduled in 2011 and a hiatus of more than a year, consensus emerged to implement pending changes in a permanent way. See w:Wikipedia:Pending changes/Request for Comment 2012.

Other links

• Main page: w:Wikipedia:Pending changes
• Feature justification: See w:Wikipedia:Flagged protection and patrolled revisions (the original community proposal)
• User requirements: See w:Wikipedia:Flagged protection and patrolled revisions (the original community proposal)
• Timeline: w:Wikipedia:Pending_changes#Timeline
• Specification
  • See w:Wikipedia:Pending changes/Trial
  • See Extension:FlaggedRevs/Specifications
• Software design document
  • (none that I'm aware of-RobLa 21:53, 2 July 2010 (UTC))
• Test plan
  • (none that I'm aware of-RobLa 21:53, 2 July 2010 (UTC))
• Documentation plan
  • Community generated documentation: w:Help:Pending changes
• User interface design docs
  • There have been many small designs referenced in the "FlaggedRevs" project on Pivotal Tracker
  • Design changes for the November release
• Schedule
  • See Pending Changes enwiki trial/Roadmap
  • Tasks for the November milestone
  • (outdated) the "FlaggedRevs" project on Pivotal Tracker
• Task management
  • Bugzilla: Open issues on "FlaggedRevs" component
  • (outdated) the "FlaggedRevs" project on Pivotal Tracker
• Release management plan
  • The initial release already occurred. See FlaggedRevs rollout plan on wikitech wiki
• Community management plan - We've generally been tracking the activity in the following places:
  • FlaggedRevs test wiki "Pending Changes issues" page - this page has the most visibility with the entire team
  • Bugzilla: anything that gets hit by the queries in the "Task management" section above should also get broad visibility among the team.
  • w:Wikipedia:Pending changes/Feedback
  • Pending Changes enwiki trial/2010-11-16-Notifications