On Fri, May 7, 2010 at 1:25 PM, Aryeh Gregor <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, May 6, 2010 at 7:38 PM, Gregory Maxwell <[email protected]> wrote: >> The message currently delivered by the software is: >> "Edits must be reviewed before being published on this page. " >> >> And yet the edit will be instantly available to every person on earth >> (well, at least all of the people who can currently access Wikipedia) >> the moment it is saved. The interface text is misleading. It is not >> a good example of transparency at all. >> >> If I knew how to fix it, I'd suggest alternative text. Sadly, I >> don't— I think that any message which conveys all of the most >> important information will be too long and complicated for most people >> to read. > > How about this. No message on the edit page itself. When they save > the edit, they're redirected to the draft page of that article, with a > message at the top saying something like "This is a publicly-viewable > draft, and will be shown to all viewers by default after review." > There's no need to mention it *before* the edit, is there? > > Mentioning it after the edit shouldn't discourage contributions too > much. To the contrary, if it shows up on the default page, they'll > probably be happier than now, knowing that someone took the time to > explicitly declare their edit worthy. If it doesn't, no different to > them than if it was reverted under the current system. > > I'm not sure that making the edit experience exactly the same as now > is best. It would confuse people who view the page from another > computer shortly after editing, before the edit is approved, and > assume that it was rejected.
I like that a lot. Best immediately viable option I've heard yet. _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
