Re: [WikiEN-l] So who's beta-testing the Visual Editor?

2013-05-19 Thread Katherine Casey
I've found it very difficult to test out the VE because so much of what I do involves, one way or another, templates (which don't work yet in VE). Manipulating anything to do with a source, for example, is out. Adding tags to an article is out. Infoboxes are out. And so forth. I suspect once

Re: [WikiEN-l] So who's beta-testing the Visual Editor?

2013-05-13 Thread David Gerard
On 13 May 2013 05:38, Steve Bennett stevag...@gmail.com wrote: As I think I commented elsewhere, the lack of references is a deal breaker for me, even for testing. A couple of times already I started making an edit with the VE, then went to add a reference...and hard to start over in the

Re: [WikiEN-l] So who's beta-testing the Visual Editor?

2013-05-12 Thread Steve Bennett
On Sun, May 12, 2013 at 6:43 AM, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote: This is all the Visual Editor edits in en:wp: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:RecentChangestagfilter=visualeditor It's not many. So please switch it on (you can still click Edit source to do references

Re: [WikiEN-l] So who's beta-testing the Visual Editor?

2013-05-11 Thread Amir E. Aharoni
2013/5/11 David Gerard dger...@gmail.com: This is all the Visual Editor edits in en:wp: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:RecentChangestagfilter=visualeditor It's not many. So please switch it on (you can still click Edit source to do references and templates) and give it a

Re: [WikiEN-l] So who's beta-testing the Visual Editor?

2013-05-11 Thread David Gerard
On 11 May 2013 22:08, Amir E. Aharoni amir.ahar...@mail.huji.ac.il wrote: Mmmm... so I know that it's the English Wikipedia mailing list, but I suppose that this won't hurt: In the Hebrew Wikipedia several people tried the VisualEditor. I counted seven newly reported bugs as a result of this,

Re: [WikiEN-l] So ...

2011-10-14 Thread Tom Morris
On Wednesday, October 12, 2011, Thomas Morton wrote: All of the portraits on http://parliament.uk are copyright to http://dods.co.uk/ It has always been in the back of my mind to approach them and ask about relicensing with a free license (long shot, but maybe...). I can't remember who I

Re: [WikiEN-l] So ...

2011-10-12 Thread Bod Notbod
On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 4:41 PM, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote: ... written anything good on the encyclopedia lately? I like this question ;O) For my part I have been considering my actions during time spent on Wikipedia and actually adding content to articles has gone by the wayside!

Re: [WikiEN-l] So ...

2011-10-12 Thread David Gerard
On 12 October 2011 10:26, Bod Notbod bodnot...@gmail.com wrote: I have mainly been reading articles and making minor edits, generally to little errors such as no space after punctuation or where someone has accidentally repeated words or phrases. I suspect there's a gadget out there that

Re: [WikiEN-l] So ...

2011-10-12 Thread Bod Notbod
On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 10:37 AM, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote: Pretty much what I've been doing of late - just proofreading as I graze. I have set myself the task of reading every article on current sitting UK MPs (whilst also keeping bookmarks of stuff to read after that, such as

Re: [WikiEN-l] So ...

2011-10-12 Thread Thomas Morton
All of the portraits on http://parliament.uk are copyright to http://dods.co.uk/ It has always been in the back of my mind to approach them and ask about relicensing with a free license (long shot, but maybe...). Currently the images are licensed as freely usable with a non-commercial clause,

Re: [WikiEN-l] So ...

2011-10-12 Thread Charles Matthews
On 11 October 2011 16:41, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote: ... written anything good on the encyclopedia lately? [[Jacobus Verheiden]] turned out to be much more rewarding than it promised to, when I just had a name. Spinoff from [[List of participants in the Synod of Dort]], which is a

Re: [WikiEN-l] So ...

2011-10-12 Thread Carcharoth
On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 3:05 PM, Charles Matthews charles.r.matth...@ntlworld.com wrote: I came across the idea of cigarette card collections of portraits on [[List of legendary kings of Scotland]], and here it is again, earlier and in another form. There is a long and venerable history of

Re: [WikiEN-l] So ...

2011-10-11 Thread Phil Nash
David Gerard wrote: ... written anything good on the encyclopedia lately? - d. I assume you're addressing this to those still able to do so. I, for my part, am beavering away on Commons trying to sort out the mess that is [[Category:Rivers of England]]. Category maintenance seems to be

Re: [WikiEN-l] So ...

2011-10-11 Thread Fred Bauder
... written anything good on the encyclopedia lately? - d. Well, yes, I discovered the answer to the mystery of why Mao adopted Stalinism and put it into History of the People's Republic of China (1949–1976) A lot of people have wondered where he got those ideas. Turns out they came from

Re: [WikiEN-l] So ...

2011-10-11 Thread Rob Schnautz
If you're into mythology/cryptozoology, I did some translation from Old Norse and Old Icelandic this summer to put together what is probably the most complete syntheses (in any language) of [[Hafgufa]] and [[Lyngbakr]], two legendary sea monsters. Bob On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 12:17 PM, Fred

Re: [WikiEN-l] So ...

2011-10-11 Thread Jussi-Ville Heiskanen
On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 6:41 PM, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote: ... written anything good on the encyclopedia lately? - d. Mostly cogent notices on talk pages, hoping that years from now somebody with more in-subject expertice will address those concerns. Eventualism isn't fun but it

Re: [WikiEN-l] So what does Flagged Revs feel like?

2009-10-01 Thread Michael Peel
On 1 Oct 2009, at 03:33, Steve Bennett wrote: The thing that puts me off most, personally, is that the IP is recorded and published. I wouldn't really care if there was some other way to identify anonymous users, but raw IPs? Ick. Is there much difference between the way a new (redlink)

Re: [WikiEN-l] So what does Flagged Revs feel like?

2009-10-01 Thread Ray Saintonge
Steve Bennett wrote: On 10/1/09, Michael Peel wrote: Is there much difference between the way a new (redlink) account is treated, and an IP account is treated? Perhaps using the former would give an indication to how the latter is treated? I tend to treat both as equally suspicious

Re: [WikiEN-l] So what does Flagged Revs feel like?

2009-09-30 Thread David Gerard
2009/9/29 Gregory Maxwell gmaxw...@gmail.com: Quality is just the default. Draft(unflagged) Checked Reviewed, perhaps? I suspect it's actually important to get this right first time - on en:wp, policy formation is by someone making up a makeshift apparatus off the top of their head, then

Re: [WikiEN-l] So what does Flagged Revs feel like?

2009-09-30 Thread Steve Bennett
On 9/30/09, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote: Again, I reiterate that all experienced editors should try editing as an IP for a while. See how well our propaganda matches the way we The thing that puts me off most, personally, is that the IP is recorded and published. I wouldn't really

Re: [WikiEN-l] So what does Flagged Revs feel like?

2009-09-29 Thread Gregory Maxwell
On Sat, Sep 26, 2009 at 6:20 AM, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote: If you want to know how Flagged Revisions feels from an unprivileged position, go to Wikinews and fix typos. I just did this on http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Geelong_win_2009_Australian_Football_League_Grand_Final - check

Re: [WikiEN-l] So what does Flagged Revs feel like?

2009-09-29 Thread Surreptitiousness
Gregory Maxwell wrote: This is another area where the UI can have a real impact: It's important the it not overstate the level of review that is occurring. Right now flaggedrevs.labs.wikimedia.org is calling the levels Draft Checked and quality, but this is under active discussion. Quality

Re: [WikiEN-l] So what does Flagged Revs feel like?

2009-09-29 Thread Gregory Maxwell
On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 12:31 PM, Surreptitiousness surreptitious.wikiped...@googlemail.com wrote: Gregory Maxwell wrote: This is another area where the UI can have a real impact: It's important the it not overstate the level of review that is occurring. Right now  

Re: [WikiEN-l] So what does Flagged Revs feel like?

2009-09-29 Thread David Goodman
The comparisons being made to NPP are interesting, because I see a lot of the problems NPP does not pick up--the articles which drop off the bottom of the list after a month and consequently that we no longer keep track of, the absolutely lousy articles people often pass over without notice, or

Re: [WikiEN-l] So what does Flagged Revs feel like?

2009-09-29 Thread Gregory Maxwell
On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 2:17 PM, David Goodman dgoodma...@gmail.com wrote: The comparisons being made to NPP are interesting, because I see a lot of the problems NPP does not pick up--the articles which drop off the bottom of the list after a month and consequently that we no longer The place

Re: [WikiEN-l] So what does Flagged Revs feel like?

2009-09-29 Thread Risker
2009/9/29 Gregory Maxwell gmaxw...@gmail.com On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 2:17 PM, David Goodman dgoodma...@gmail.com wrote: The comparisons being made to NPP are interesting, because I see a lot of the problems NPP does not pick up--the articles which drop off the bottom of the list after a

Re: [WikiEN-l] So what does Flagged Revs feel like?

2009-09-29 Thread Jussi-Ville Heiskanen
Gregory Maxwell wrote: On Sat, Sep 26, 2009 at 6:20 AM, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote: If you want to know how Flagged Revisions feels from an unprivileged position, go to Wikinews and fix typos. I just did this on

Re: [WikiEN-l] So what does Flagged Revs feel like?

2009-09-29 Thread Carcharoth
On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 7:48 PM, Jussi-Ville Heiskanen cimonav...@gmail.com wrote: Gregory Maxwell wrote: snip The process can and should be made mostly invisible to casual editors. Like I said, you don't want the process to be 'invisible' to casual editors, you want it to be *transparently

Re: [WikiEN-l] So what does Flagged Revs feel like?

2009-09-29 Thread Andrew Gray
2009/9/29 Risker risker...@gmail.com: 2009/9/29 Gregory Maxwell gmaxw...@gmail.com The place where the comparison to NPP falls short is that NPP doesn't *do* anything, except coordinate with other people using the feature and people don't use it because it doesn't do anything snip To

Re: [WikiEN-l] So what does Flagged Revs feel like?

2009-09-29 Thread Charles Matthews
David Goodman wrote: If enWikipedia has only 4,000 active editors, and we don't do better at this than, we are going to keep up with only a very few articles. The plan will work , though, for the most watched articles, fortunately where they are needed, because that's the ones where people

Re: [WikiEN-l] So what does Flagged Revs feel like?

2009-09-29 Thread Gregory Maxwell
On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 2:48 PM, Jussi-Ville Heiskanen cimonav...@gmail.com wrote: Gregory Maxwell wrote: UI fail. There is no reason for you to know or care that your edit isn't being displayed to the general public.  It's being displayed to you, it's being displayed to all the other

Re: [WikiEN-l] So what does Flagged Revs feel like?

2009-09-29 Thread The Cunctator
On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 12:01 PM, Gregory Maxwell gmaxw...@gmail.comwrote: On Sat, Sep 26, 2009 at 6:20 AM, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote: If you want to know how Flagged Revisions feels from an unprivileged position, go to Wikinews and fix typos. I just did this on

Re: [WikiEN-l] So what does Flagged Revs feel like?

2009-09-27 Thread Steve Bennett
On Sun, Sep 27, 2009 at 5:22 AM, Thomas Dalton thomas.dal...@gmail.com wrote: I think we should have flagged revs for as many articles as we can keep up-to-date with. If it takes more than 5 minutes (preferably 1 minute) to review an edit (except for occasional times when somehow a backlog

Re: [WikiEN-l] So what does Flagged Revs feel like?

2009-09-27 Thread Thomas Dalton
2009/9/27 Steve Bennett stevag...@gmail.com: On Sun, Sep 27, 2009 at 5:22 AM, Thomas Dalton thomas.dal...@gmail.com wrote: I think we should have flagged revs for as many articles as we can keep up-to-date with. If it takes more than 5 minutes (preferably 1 minute) to review an edit (except

Re: [WikiEN-l] So what does Flagged Revs feel like?

2009-09-27 Thread Andrew Gray
2009/9/27 Thomas Dalton thomas.dal...@gmail.com: There may be an issue with only having some pages under the review system - we will need to split effort between RC-patrol and ORP-patrol. Hopefully that will happen organically, but we will need to keep an eye on it. It is possible that having

Re: [WikiEN-l] So what does Flagged Revs feel like?

2009-09-27 Thread Andrew Gray
2009/9/27 Andrew Gray andrew.g...@dunelm.org.uk: 2009/9/27 Thomas Dalton thomas.dal...@gmail.com: There may be an issue with only having some pages under the review system - we will need to split effort between RC-patrol and ORP-patrol. Hopefully that will happen organically, but we will need

Re: [WikiEN-l] So what does Flagged Revs feel like?

2009-09-27 Thread Thomas Dalton
2009/9/27 Andrew Gray andrew.g...@dunelm.org.uk: and the conclusion I meant to add: patrolling will, potentially, be able to supplant RC patrol as we know it now; because patrolled-revisions is basically a tool for avoiding RC duplication and for making revision-management easier. It will

Re: [WikiEN-l] So what does Flagged Revs feel like?

2009-09-27 Thread stevertigo
Thomas Dalton thomas.dal...@gmail.com wrote: While people are, of course, free to choose what to work on, that is a fundamental part of the way Wikipedia works, it makes sense to encourage people to work in a particular way. Well there are several different types of things that people do, and

Re: [WikiEN-l] So what does Flagged Revs feel like?

2009-09-27 Thread Thomas Dalton
2009/9/27 stevertigo stv...@gmail.com: Thomas Dalton thomas.dal...@gmail.com wrote: While people are, of course, free to choose what to work on, that is a fundamental part of the way Wikipedia works, it makes sense to encourage people to work in a particular way. Well there are several

Re: [WikiEN-l] So what does Flagged Revs feel like?

2009-09-27 Thread stevertigo
Thomas Dalton thomas.dal...@gmail.com wrote: But RC-patrol and review flagging are very similar and can both be done by endless slogging. Slogging is slogging. Slogging is not editing. I just understand that there are better ways to do it, (whatever that means), ways to do it better, and

Re: [WikiEN-l] So what does Flagged Revs feel like?

2009-09-27 Thread Thomas Dalton
2009/9/27 stevertigo stv...@gmail.com: Thomas Dalton thomas.dal...@gmail.com wrote: But RC-patrol and review flagging are very similar and can both be done by endless slogging. Slogging is slogging. Slogging is not editing. I disagree, but I don't see the relevance anyway. Whether you

Re: [WikiEN-l] So what does Flagged Revs feel like?

2009-09-26 Thread Ian Woollard
On 26/09/2009, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote: If you want to know how Flagged Revisions feels from an unprivileged position, go to Wikinews and fix typos. I just did this on http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Geelong_win_2009_Australian_Football_League_Grand_Final - check the history. I'm not

Re: [WikiEN-l] So what does Flagged Revs feel like?

2009-09-26 Thread Judson Dunn
Yes, I sincerely hope that we don't use it more than we use protection now. That's the promise we've all been making outside the community for a long time, I don't think we should prove the reporters right. :) Judson http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Cohesion

Re: [WikiEN-l] So what does Flagged Revs feel like?

2009-09-26 Thread stevertigo
David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote: What did it feel like? Curiously unsatisfying. The fix not going live immediately left me wondering just when it would - five minutes/? An hour? A day? It felt nothing like editing a wiki - it felt like I'd submitted a form to a completely opaque

Re: [WikiEN-l] So what does Flagged Revs feel like?

2009-09-26 Thread David Gerard
2009/9/26 Thomas Dalton thomas.dal...@gmail.com: I think we should have flagged revs for as many articles as we can keep up-to-date with. If it takes more than 5 minutes (preferably 1 minute) to review an edit (except for occasional times when somehow a backlog builds up and it takes a few

Re: [WikiEN-l] So what does Flagged Revs feel like?

2009-09-26 Thread Thomas Dalton
2009/9/26 David Gerard dger...@gmail.com: 2009/9/26 Thomas Dalton thomas.dal...@gmail.com: I think we should have flagged revs for as many articles as we can keep up-to-date with. If it takes more than 5 minutes (preferably 1 minute) to review an edit (except for occasional times when somehow

Re: [WikiEN-l] So what does Flagged Revs feel like?

2009-09-26 Thread David Gerard
2009/9/26 Thomas Dalton thomas.dal...@gmail.com: 2009/9/26 David Gerard dger...@gmail.com: de:wp manages about one third in the first hour. That's really not enough unless there's sone urgent need to stop Wikipedia newbie editing dead. No, IMO they have failed. It should be literally 100%

Re: [WikiEN-l] So what does Flagged Revs feel like?

2009-09-26 Thread Thomas Dalton
2009/9/26 The Cunctator cuncta...@gmail.com: The problem is that one of the fundamental rules of interactive design is that anything less than real time feedback is profoundly disorienting. To some degree that can be ameliorated if once someone submitted a flagged revision some kind of counter

Re: [WikiEN-l] So what does Flagged Revs feel like?

2009-09-26 Thread Thomas Dalton
2009/9/26 David Gerard dger...@gmail.com: http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spezial:Markierungsstatistik Those numbers would be a disaster. This I think is why the trial is so limited. 5% of edits taking more that FOUR HUNDRED AND THIRTY NINE HOURS EIGHT MINUTES AND FIFTY FIVE SECONDS?! That is

Re: [WikiEN-l] So what does Flagged Revs feel like?

2009-09-26 Thread stevertigo
Thomas Dalton thomas.dal...@gmail.com wrote: 5% of edits taking more that FOUR HUNDRED AND THIRTY NINE HOURS EIGHT MINUTES AND FIFTY FIVE SECONDS?! That is unforgivable, even with every article included. They either have too strict criteria for sighting so too many people say Oh, I'm not

Re: [WikiEN-l] So what does Flagged Revs feel like?

2009-09-26 Thread stevertigo
PPCD: stevertigo stv...@gmail.com wrote: - and unfogiveable only entered +and unforgiveable only entered - but from a practical need to focus on people that can write editorials, +but from a logical need to focus on people that can write editorials, -a logical limitation on the usage of the

Re: [WikiEN-l] So what does Flagged Revs feel like?

2009-09-26 Thread The Cunctator
Your edits have been submitted for review. On Sat, Sep 26, 2009 at 4:45 PM, stevertigo stv...@gmail.com wrote: PPCD: stevertigo stv...@gmail.com wrote: - and unfogiveable only entered +and unforgiveable only entered - but from a practical need to focus on people that can write

Re: [WikiEN-l] So what does Flagged Revs feel like?

2009-09-26 Thread Thomas Dalton
2009/9/26 stevertigo stv...@gmail.com: The fact of the matter was then, remains so, and will remain so, that some articles are just not as notable, and therefore won't get seen and won't get checked on anyone's schedule.** There is no issue of unforgivability' involved at all, even if we can

Re: [WikiEN-l] So what does Flagged Revs feel like?

2009-09-26 Thread Thomas Dalton
2009/9/27 Ian Woollard ian.wooll...@gmail.com: On 26/09/2009, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote: de:wp manages about one third in the first hour. That's really not enough unless there's sone urgent need to stop Wikipedia newbie editing dead. You'd think so, but that's not what the german

Re: [WikiEN-l] So what does Flagged Revs feel like?

2009-09-26 Thread Thomas Dalton
2009/9/27 Thomas Dalton thomas.dal...@gmail.com: You'd think so, but that's not what the german statistics say- the anonymous still edit at about the same rate. Do we know how many anonymous editors made more than one edit anyway? Perhaps most of the people that made multiple edits registered

Re: [WikiEN-l] So what does Flagged Revs feel like?

2009-09-26 Thread stevertigo
Thomas Dalton thomas.dal...@gmail.com wrote: I disagree. I don't see why notability should be a factor. Notability might be the wrong word. 'Degree of interest' is perhaps the more accurate term. No interest = no page views = no checks for... topical completeness, bland writing, wandering

Re: [WikiEN-l] So, what is the deal with flagged revisions?

2009-08-30 Thread Keegan Paul
On Sat, Aug 29, 2009 at 12:29 PM, Emily Monroe bluecalioc...@me.com wrote: the lack of visible reward will have the same effect on them as on new contributors. What can we do about that? Emily In my opinion, nothing. In any societal construct, 10% do the management, 30% does the other

Re: [WikiEN-l] So, what is the deal with flagged revisions?

2009-08-30 Thread Daniel R. Tobias
On Sun, 30 Aug 2009 03:06:45 -0500, Keegan Paul wrote: In my opinion, nothing. In any societal construct, 10% do the management, 30% does the other work, and 60% come an go as they please. In a way, it is for the best since you actually get care an concern rather than forced labor. Do they

Re: [WikiEN-l] So, what is the deal with flagged revisions?

2009-08-30 Thread Nathan Russell
One issue that's bugged me for awhile wrt flagged revisions is whether we'll have a problem with people saying that [[m:The Wrong Version]] is still flagged, and theirs hasn't yet been. Granted, if this becomes an issue, it can be easily enough solved by flagging the current version (and, if

Re: [WikiEN-l] So, what is the deal with flagged revisions?

2009-08-29 Thread Emily Monroe
the lack of visible reward will have the same effect on them as on new contributors. What can we do about that? Emily On Aug 28, 2009, at 9:08 PM, David Goodman wrote: the lack of visible reward will have the same effect on them as on new contributors. David Goodman, Ph.D, M.L.S.

Re: [WikiEN-l] So, what is the deal with flagged revisions?

2009-08-29 Thread Daniel R. Tobias
On Thu, 27 Aug 2009 14:52:48 +0100 (BST), Andrew Turvey wrote: See [[Wikipedia:Reviewers]] for more information. Not to be confused with Wikipedia Review, of course. -- == Dan == Dan's Mail Format Site: http://mailformat.dan.info/ Dan's Web Tips: http://webtips.dan.info/ Dan's Domain Site:

Re: [WikiEN-l] So, what is the deal with flagged revisions?

2009-08-28 Thread David Gerard
2009/8/28 Thomas Dalton thomas.dal...@gmail.com: 2009/8/28 David Gerard dger...@gmail.com: Protection is a failure of the wiki model in the first place. Discussion is a poor substitute for editing. Edit warring is a failure of the wiki model. We use protection to force people into a

Re: [WikiEN-l] So, what is the deal with flagged revisions?

2009-08-28 Thread David Goodman
the lack of visible reward will have the same effect on them as on new contributors. David Goodman, Ph.D, M.L.S. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:DGG On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 2:15 PM, David Gerarddger...@gmail.com wrote: 2009/8/28 Thomas Dalton thomas.dal...@gmail.com: 2009/8/28 David

Re: [WikiEN-l] So, what is the deal with flagged revisions?

2009-08-28 Thread wjhonson
Message- From: David Goodman dgoodma...@gmail.com To: English Wikipedia wikien-l@lists.wikimedia.org Sent: Fri, Aug 28, 2009 7:08 pm Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] So, what is the deal with flagged revisions? the lack of visible reward will have the same effect on them as on new contributors

Re: [WikiEN-l] So, what is the deal with flagged revisions?

2009-08-27 Thread Gwern Branwen
On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 6:58 AM, Apoc 2400apoc2...@gmail.com wrote: After all, I can email a suggested change to them and probably get a reply. Actually, I've done this (before their recent contributions stuff), and got a reply within 2 days. I was quite surprised. So I suppose we should adopt

Re: [WikiEN-l] So, what is the deal with flagged revisions?

2009-08-27 Thread Carcharoth
On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 11:58 AM, Apoc 2400apoc2...@gmail.com wrote: snip Remember also that later edits build on the latest draft. There is no branching so a new persons edits cannot be left unflagged while the regulars keep editing. If the regulars editing have some auto-flagging to

Re: [WikiEN-l] So, what is the deal with flagged revisions?

2009-08-27 Thread Steve Bennett
On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 9:24 PM, Carcharothcarcharot...@googlemail.com wrote: If the regulars editing have some auto-flagging to approve their own edits, surely they risk approving someone else's changes that were made in between the time they loaded and read the page, and clicked edit this

Re: [WikiEN-l] So, what is the deal with flagged revisions?

2009-08-27 Thread Andrew Gray
2009/8/27 Steve Bennett stevag...@gmail.com: So apparently all the press reporting is wrong. What's the real story? For some reason, I've never actually come across these flagged revisions, partly because they always seemed to be happening in the future some time. What's the policy going to

Re: [WikiEN-l] So, what is the deal with flagged revisions?

2009-08-27 Thread Andrew Gray
2009/8/27 Carcharoth carcharot...@googlemail.com: If the regulars editing have some auto-flagging to approve their own edits, surely they risk approving someone else's changes that were made in between the time they loaded and read the page, and clicked edit this page? To avoid this, you

Re: [WikiEN-l] So, what is the deal with flagged revisions?

2009-08-27 Thread Carcharoth
On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 2:17 PM, Andrew Grayandrew.g...@dunelm.org.uk wrote: 2009/8/27 Carcharoth carcharot...@googlemail.com: If the regulars editing have some auto-flagging to approve their own edits, surely they risk approving someone else's changes that were made in between the time they

Re: [WikiEN-l] So, what is the deal with flagged revisions?

2009-08-27 Thread Andrew Gray
2009/8/27 Carcharoth carcharot...@googlemail.com: I'm guessing this is an opt-in system, and we'll have to encourage people only to use it on low-traffic pages. Hmm. Sounds like it. Unless we are breaking new ground to what de-wiki did. My understanding is that the two systems are just

Re: [WikiEN-l] So, what is the deal with flagged revisions?

2009-08-27 Thread Andrew Turvey
Good questions. Here's my personal view: So apparently all the press reporting is wrong. What's the real story? The press story (particularly in Britain) seems to be along the lines of: Wikipedia, founded on open editing has been forced to restrict editing as their model has failed This

Re: [WikiEN-l] So, what is the deal with flagged revisions?

2009-08-27 Thread Carcharoth
On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 2:52 PM, Andrew Turveyandrewrtur...@googlemail.com wrote: snip 1) Is this going to apply to every page? No. People have been talking about all living person articles, although the community may of course decide to roll it out to all articles in the future, or

Re: [WikiEN-l] So, what is the deal with flagged revisions?

2009-08-27 Thread Emily Monroe
Controversial articles must not be constantly backlogged because reviewers are afraid of getting drawn into an edit war. I get the impression from this statement that traditional full dispute protection will still be needed. Will this still be available? Emily On Aug 27, 2009, at 5:58 AM,

Re: [WikiEN-l] So, what is the deal with flagged revisions?

2009-08-27 Thread Carcharoth
On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 3:10 PM, Carcharothcarcharot...@googlemail.com wrote: snip This is one reason I asked for an edit filter to be set up to monitor how often people add and remove this category and how often vandals do this (either intentionally, or as part of another edit). Of course,

Re: [WikiEN-l] So, what is the deal with flagged revisions?

2009-08-27 Thread Andrew Gray
2009/8/27 Emily Monroe bluecalioc...@me.com: Controversial articles must not be constantly backlogged because reviewers are afraid of getting drawn into an edit war. I get the impression from this statement that traditional full dispute protection will still be needed. Will this still be

Re: [WikiEN-l] So, what is the deal with flagged revisions?

2009-08-27 Thread Andrew Gray
2009/8/27 Andrew Turvey andrewrtur...@googlemail.com: 4) Is there any automatic flagging? I think the idea was all entries with [[Category:Living persons]] would be automatically flagged. No, no. Flagged protection will be applied to - well, articles we choose to apply it to, in the same

Re: [WikiEN-l] So, what is the deal with flagged revisions?

2009-08-27 Thread David Gerard
2009/8/27 Andrew Gray andrew.g...@dunelm.org.uk: Full-flagged protection allows anyone to edit, but only admins (*not* reviewers) to approve; I would assume conventional complete-lock will remain for stuff we don't *want* edited, such as the main page. Jimbo has said he'd love to have

Re: [WikiEN-l] So, what is the deal with flagged revisions?

2009-08-27 Thread David Gerard
2009/8/27 Apoc 2400 apoc2...@gmail.com: There is also the new full-flagged-protection where instead of using {{editprotected}} you can edit the draft and wait for an admin to flag. I don't know if this will actually be used very often, since it doesn't really stop edit wars. I think it'll

Re: [WikiEN-l] So, what is the deal with flagged revisions?

2009-08-27 Thread Emily Monroe
The idea is that full protection can be slowly deprecated and any page at all can be open to improvement by anyone. Okay, but what about edit wars, and other cases of Well, it isn't *really* vandalism, but people are distracting themselves from being constructive here.? I envision a

Re: [WikiEN-l] So, what is the deal with flagged revisions?

2009-08-27 Thread Andrew Turvey
- Carcharoth carcharot...@googlemail.com wrote: Members of the user group Reviewer. All Admins will automatically be given reviewer status and all other users will be able to apply for it at [[WP:Request for permissions]]; like rollback there will be a presumed threshold of number

Re: [WikiEN-l] So, what is the deal with flagged revisions?

2009-08-27 Thread Andrew Turvey
- Andrew Gray andrew.g...@dunelm.org.uk wrote: The all-BLPs idea seems to have been abandoned. I can't find anywhere in the trial pages saying this - where did you find that? If true, it's interesting. We'll see if after the trial the idea of all-BLPs is resurrected - I'm sure there'll

Re: [WikiEN-l] So, what is the deal with flagged revisions?

2009-08-27 Thread Andrew Gray
2009/8/27 Andrew Turvey andrewrtur...@googlemail.com: - Andrew Gray andrew.g...@dunelm.org.uk wrote: The all-BLPs idea seems to have been abandoned. I can't find anywhere in the trial pages saying this - where did you find that? Inference ;-) Thus, it is proposed to enable patrolled

Re: [WikiEN-l] So, what is the deal with flagged revisions?

2009-08-27 Thread Thomas Dalton
2009/8/27 Andrew Turvey andrewrtur...@googlemail.com: - Andrew Gray andrew.g...@dunelm.org.uk wrote: The all-BLPs idea seems to have been abandoned. I can't find anywhere in the trial pages saying this - where did you find that? I can't find anywhere in the trial pages that mentions

Re: [WikiEN-l] So, what is the deal with flagged revisions?

2009-08-27 Thread David Goodman
As I thought the poll was, we were approving a trial limited in all respects to BLP only. We were also discussing a trial on one thing, not a simultaneous trial of several different proposals. in trying to see how a complicated new routine works, we should be testing either flagged revision or

Re: [WikiEN-l] So, what is the deal with flagged revisions?

2009-08-27 Thread Steve Bennett
On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 12:37 AM, David Gerarddger...@gmail.com wrote: I think it'll remove a lot of the reward for aggressive stupidity not having the stupidity show up on the live site in real time. Oh, interesting point. Imagine a page gets flag-checked every sunday. On monday, what would be

Re: [WikiEN-l] So, what is the deal with flagged revisions?

2009-08-27 Thread Thomas Dalton
2009/8/27 David Gerard dger...@gmail.com: 2009/8/27 Apoc 2400 apoc2...@gmail.com: There is also the new full-flagged-protection where instead of using {{editprotected}} you can edit the draft and wait for an admin to flag. I don't know if this will actually be used very often, since it

Re: [WikiEN-l] So, what is the deal with flagged revisions?

2009-08-26 Thread Steve Bennett
Ok, Erik's post answered some of these: So, quick questions: 1) Is this going to apply to every page? No, BLP's and some others. 9) Can non-logged in editors see non-flagged versions? Yes. Steve ___ WikiEN-l mailing list

Re: [WikiEN-l] So much for the Obama scandal

2009-03-12 Thread stevertigo
There is probably some truth in that. Most people who deal with online identity have to deal with the online disinhibition effect (ODE), and many of us have certain experience of expressing ourselves using less-than-ideal concepts. But that's no less true for the few partisans trying to turn the

Re: [WikiEN-l] So much for the Obama scandal

2009-03-11 Thread Matthew Brown
On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 3:53 PM, geni geni...@gmail.com wrote: It's coverage in the actual media rather than blogs isn't very widespread. It is however cheap and easy to write so there is a significant incentive for media organisations to pick it up. And the media loves to talk about the

Re: [WikiEN-l] So much for the Obama scandal

2009-03-11 Thread David Gerard
2009/3/11 Matthew Brown mor...@gmail.com: On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 3:53 PM, geni geni...@gmail.com wrote: It's coverage in the actual media rather than blogs isn't very widespread. It is however cheap and easy to write so there is a significant incentive for media organisations to pick it up.

Re: [WikiEN-l] So much for the Obama scandal

2009-03-10 Thread Nathan
This one is funny: http://www.webpronews.com/topnews/2009/03/09/postscript-to-world-net-dailywikipedia-editorial Can't say I've ever heard of WebProNews before, but this columnist is revising an earlier piece criticising WND. He also says I tend to think philosophies are prisons robbing us of any

Re: [WikiEN-l] So much for the Obama scandal

2009-03-10 Thread Charles Matthews
geni wrote: 2009/3/10 David Gerard dger...@gmail.com: http://gawker.com/5167585/right+wing-writer-invents-his-own-obama-wikipedia-scandal - d. Doesn't really matter. It's been picked up by larger and somewhat respectable right wing sources (Telegraph) so the truth of the matter

Re: [WikiEN-l] So much for the Obama scandal

2009-03-10 Thread geni
2009/3/10 Charles Matthews charles.r.matth...@ntlworld.com: Interesting ... last I heard the world economy was in meltdown, there is no free-market solution in sight yet, and state intervention is running out of zeroes. And what really interests the media is stories about other smaller parts

Re: [WikiEN-l] So much for the Obama scandal

2009-03-10 Thread Chris Down
@lists.wikimedia.org Sent: Tue, 10 Mar 2009 3:25 pm Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] So much for the Obama scandal This one is funny: http://www.webpronews.com/topnews/2009/03/09/postscript-to-world-net-dailywikipedia-editorial Can't say I've ever heard of WebProNews before, but this columnist is revising