On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 9:24 PM, Carcharoth<[email protected]> 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 page"? To avoid this, you would need a warning saying "you
> are approving other revisions, not just the one you are saving".

Good point.

> Personally, I think regulars need to encounter the same "delays" as
> everyone else. It will open their eyes to what it is like editing
> logged out or without an account (more reversion of edits).

Yes. That feature seems pretty problematic. It sounds like auto
confirmation for established editors will make Wikipedia even more of
a clique, by raising the barrier to entry.

Steve

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