On Sat, Sep 26, 2009 at 6:20 AM, 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. Don't take my word for it - go typo-fixing on Wikinews and tell me how it feels to you. So, yeah. I remain a big fan of flagged revisions for those times when we need it - basically, as a less-worse alternative to protection or semiprotection. But it really does kill the wiki motivational buzz dead. - d.
"After the posting of the 26th May The Secretary of the WM Foundation Had articles distributed in the MSM Stating that the editors Had forfeited the confidence of the foundation And could win it back only By redoubled efforts. Would it not be easier In that case for the foundation To dissolve the community And elect another?" (With apologies to Bertolt Brecht.) -- gwern
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