On 26/09/2009, David Gerard <dgerard(a)gmail.com> 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_Gra…
- 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.
Yes, I did that a while back. I suspect it's worse for a news site
though; I wrote an item for it, and then it was up for checking, but
they didn't allow it to go live due to trivial formatting issues I was
able to fix in a few minutes. It then got held in limbo for another
day while I waited for it to be revetted, then they rejected it again,
another couple of minutes of fixing and then after *another* day, it
went live.
And this is supposed to be a news site.
Frankly, I haven't gone back.
I think it will work a lot better on wikipedia though; it's not the
same type of site.
- d.
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-Ian Woollard