On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 6:39 PM, stevertigo <[email protected]> wrote:
> Carcharoth <[email protected]> wrote: > > The usual solution is to use templates to flag up outdated material > > for editors to review and check things did happen, and to issue the > > needed corrections and updates. > > Exactly. Its quaint. Tagging specific forecasts as temporal takes what > is a lazy eventualistic, let-someone-else-do-it process and signals > that specific outdated language (and its outdated reference) need > updating. > Wikis are all about eventualistic processes. It's kind of the point. That said, automatic notification of people who care that a statement has become stale is useful. Perhaps this could set a special flag in watchlists? I'm against the idea of automatically updating content for the reason that it's assuming the prediction in the article about a future event is true and actually happened as predicted. -Matt _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
