Mike Pruden wrote:
It isn't uncommon for the normally active user to have hundreds, if not
thousands, of pages on their watchlist. Then, when somebody makes an edit
that a certain user doesn't agree with, it gets changed or outright reverted.
It's like, at the least, a form of a bunch of
On Wed, Dec 9, 2009 at 7:30 PM, Mike Pruden mikepru...@yahoo.com wrote:
Personally, I found unloading my watchlist liberating, and I would hope that
more would do the same. There's always that steady stream of vandal-fighters
to stomp out any clear vandalism that pops up.
What about edits
2009/12/10 Charles Matthews charles.r.matth...@ntlworld.com:
The logic is wrong, in that the pile-up factor is not the main issue:
coverage on someone's watchlist at all is the issue. Divide the number
of articles by the number of active Wikipedians and you find that unless
many people have
Strangely enough, the flaggedrevisions feature seems to provide a lot of
what we need:
1) People don't have to watch changes as they happen, they can stumble on
them when they go to save a new change
2) Changes are marked as patrolled, so far more efficient than 10 people all
noticing the same
Steve Bennett wrote:
Strangely enough, the flaggedrevisions feature seems to provide a lot
of what we need:
1) People don't have to watch changes as they happen, they can stumble
on them when they go to save a new change
2) Changes are marked as patrolled, so far more efficient than 10
2009/12/10 Steve Bennett stevag...@gmail.com:
Strangely enough, the flaggedrevisions feature seems to provide a lot of
what we need:
1) People don't have to watch changes as they happen, they can stumble on
them when they go to save a new change
2) Changes are marked as patrolled, so far more
Pruden mikepru...@yahoo.com
Subject: [WikiEN-l] Do we try to watch(list) the encyclopedia too
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Perhaps I'm the only one who finds this a little
On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 7:52 AM, Steve Bennett stevag...@gmail.com wrote:
Strangely enough, the flaggedrevisions feature seems to provide a lot of
what we need:
1) People don't have to watch changes as they happen, they can stumble on
them when they go to save a new change
2) Changes are
On Fri, Dec 11, 2009 at 12:49 AM, geni geni...@gmail.com wrote:
3)The massive backlog in patrolled edits will kill the instant
feedback wikipedia currently gives and reduce editing to a level where
watching everything is no longer a problem.
Only if all pages are set to show only the patrolled
David Gerard wrote:
2009/12/10 Charles Matthews charles.r.matth...@ntlworld.com:
The logic is wrong, in that the pile-up factor is not the main issue:
coverage on someone's watchlist at all is the issue. Divide the number
of articles by the number of active Wikipedians and you find that
On Fri, Dec 11, 2009 at 2:38 AM, Charles Matthews
charles.r.matth...@ntlworld.com wrote:
Perhaps one of our wizards could check how many pages are not watched by
anybody who has edited in 2009.
More useful and precise would be collecting page views of diffs. I
don't know if we record them or
2009/12/10 geni geni...@gmail.com:
2009/12/10 Steve Bennett stevag...@gmail.com:
Strangely enough, the flaggedrevisions feature seems to provide a lot of
what we need:
1) People don't have to watch changes as they happen, they can stumble on
them when they go to save a new change
2) Changes
On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 2:27 AM, Charles Matthews
charles.r.matth...@ntlworld.com wrote:
Mike Pruden wrote:
It isn't uncommon for the normally active user to have hundreds, if not
thousands, of pages on their watchlist. Then, when somebody makes an edit
that a certain user doesn't agree
Perhaps I'm the only one who finds this a little concerning in my part, but
lately I've been feeling that too many users are trying to watch too much of
Wikipedia at one time.
Let me elaborate a little. It isn't uncommon for the normally active user to
have hundreds, if not thousands, of pages
2009/12/10 Mike Pruden mikepru...@yahoo.com:
Personally, I found unloading my watchlist liberating, and I would hope that
more would do the same. There's always that steady stream of vandal-fighters
to stomp out any clear vandalism that pops up. It's hard to explain, but I
think it's a
On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 11:30 AM, Mike Pruden mikepru...@yahoo.com wrote:
Perhaps I'm the only one who finds this a little concerning in my part, but
lately I've been feeling that too many users are trying to watch too much of
Wikipedia at one time.
Let me elaborate a little. It isn't
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