agreed on that. I'm very apprehensive about the possible negative effect on new contributors, but this seems a good solution
David Goodman, Ph.D, M.L.S. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:DGG On Fri, May 7, 2010 at 8:36 PM, Gregory Maxwell <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
