On Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 1:44 PM, Carcharoth <[email protected]>wrote:
> > Might it be because they were looked at several times and each time > people went "um, not sure about this" and left it for someone else to > do? Flagged revisions is serious because the impression is that you > are verifying people's work to some standard. Now if someone quote an > obscure source, but you don't have or haven't heard of that source, > what do you do? Trust the editor? Let it go through anyway? Let > someone else deal with it and see a backlog build up? > > What I'd like to see is a feature where you can click "not sure" and > bump the review up several levels of expertise, so the difficult stuff > gets naturally filtered to those with the expertise. Say, subject > matter or foreign language, or obscure book. Depending on how flexible > such a system is, it might make flagging revisions more efficient, not > less. > > Training people to do rudimentary and moderate and advanced reviews > would be next. > > Extremely dififcult to scale and harness the right levels of expertise > (from typo-spotting upwards), but very rewarding if done right. One > problem is edits that combine different sorts of things, and the > "massive chunks of text added in one go". > > I presume the current system is a rudimentary one only designed to > catch obvious vandalism? If that is the case, people need to be more > alert than before (not less) to subtle vandalism and good-faith > misrepresentation of sources by poor or skewed writing. > > Carcharoth > I think FlaggedRevs main object is to reduce vandalism and obvious misinformation. Its a fairly blunt tool, one that isn't well suited to protecting content more comprehensively. That shouldn't be held against it, in my opinion - it is well suited for the task for which it was intended. As for an escalation track for flagging a revision based on expertise - well, I don't think that is likely to happen or to work. There are too many obvious flaws for a ladder based system to function. What might conceivably work in this vein is an intermediate flag for a revision that says "expertise needed", but I don't think we've really discussed flagging or not flagging revisions based on evaluations of the depth you're implying. Something that would need probably years more discussion. Nathan _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
