Ricordisamoa wrote: >Il 17/03/2015 23:29, Danny Horn ha scritto: >> -- The ability to edit other people's posts will be out on Mediawiki by >> the end of next week. We’ve made a few interface changes to support >> that. Posts that have been edited by someone that isn’t the original >> poster now say “Edited by Username 3 minutes ago”, so that it’s easy >> for everyone to see what’s happened. When someone edits an existing >> post, we fixed the diff pages so that you can browse between previous >> and next changes. [1] > >By "Mediawiki", do you mean www.mediawiki.org? >I would like to stress the importance of such ability for *all* wikis. >On Wikimedia, unlike most other sites, nothing is 'owned' by someone, >and protection is only a precautionary measure. Flow is supposed to work >with this model.
Agreed. The ability of anyone to revert bad edits also acts a major anti-abuse feature. As has been pointed out many times, there's a very real spam concern if only the author and admins can edit posts. >> -- Make the links to threads look nicer -- Yeah, this is annoying. It’s >> not in our top five list of annoyances at the moment, but we’ll keep >> checking off annoying items. Nicer links will get its turn. [5] >>[5] Less ugly topic page links: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T59154 Erik B. says on that task that the deployment of ContentHandler should help. This is excellent news. >Thanks for the detailed and timely reply. My thanks as well! This e-mail really helped alleviate some of my concerns with Flow's development. I have too much experience with Flow's predecessor LiquidThreads to say that I'm optimistic, but I'm definitely less concerned now about Flow's future than I was when I started the day. MZMcBride _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
