On 26/09/2009, David Gerard <[email protected]> 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 an admin or reviewer on en:wn. > > 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 bureaucracy for review at > their leisure.
Yes, I did that a while back. I suspect it's worse for a news site though; I wrote an item for it, and then it was up for checking, but they didn't allow it to go live due to trivial formatting issues I was able to fix in a few minutes. It then got held in limbo for another day while I waited for it to be revetted, then they rejected it again, another couple of minutes of fixing and then after *another* day, it went live. And this is supposed to be a news site. Frankly, I haven't gone back. I think it will work a lot better on wikipedia though; it's not the same type of site. > - d. -- -Ian Woollard _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
