{"id":169,"date":"2009-03-03T16:08:49","date_gmt":"2009-03-03T16:08:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/notes\/?p=169"},"modified":"2009-03-03T17:20:37","modified_gmt":"2009-03-03T17:20:37","slug":"flagged-revisions-and-living-biographies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/notes\/2009\/03\/03\/flagged-revisions-and-living-biographies\/","title":{"rendered":"Flagged revisions and living biographies."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I spent Sunday through this morning doing Wikimedia stuff. (I have flu, but you know this doesn&#8217;t require coherent thought.) Mostly relating to <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Wikipedia:Flagged_revisions\/Trial\">flagged revisions<\/a> on en:wp (status: awaiting a more robust and supported proposal &mdash; <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Wikipedia_talk:Flagged_revisions\/Trial\/Votes\">59:41<\/a> is an <a href=\"http:\/\/lists.wikimedia.org\/pipermail\/wikitech-l\/2009-March\/041824.html\">insufficiently<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Wikipedia_talk:Flagged_revisions\/Trial\">convincing<\/a> majority) and <a href=\"http:\/\/lists.wikimedia.org\/pipermail\/foundation-l\/2009-March\/thread.html#50366\">biographies of living people<\/a>. I suggest reading that last link and joining the discussion on foundation-l.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s amazing how much time it uses and how little sense one can have of things actually pushing forward. Wikipedia is the size of a small city. You know how hard it is herding five volunteers? Try getting ten thousand to do any particular thing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I spent Sunday through this morning doing Wikimedia stuff. (I have flu, but you know this doesn&#8217;t require coherent thought.) Mostly relating to flagged revisions on en:wp (status: awaiting a more robust and supported proposal &mdash; 59:41 is an insufficiently convincing majority) and biographies of living people. I suggest reading that last link and joining &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/notes\/2009\/03\/03\/flagged-revisions-and-living-biographies\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Flagged revisions and living biographies.&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wiki"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4FmVR-2J","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=169"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":170,"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169\/revisions\/170"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}