Lack of visible reward. Yes I think that's is it, or part of it anyway.
It's why I've been fixated at Knol for a while. Wanting to see my own
name in lights.
Too bad Wikipedia couldn't have a sister project for publishing
scholarly papers.
Or could we? Or do we?
Will Johnson
-----Original Message-----
From: David Goodman <dgoodmanny(a)gmail.com>
To: English Wikipedia <wikien-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Sent: Fri, Aug 28, 2009 7:08 pm
Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] So, what is the deal with flagged revisions?
the lack of visible reward will have the same effect on them as on new
contributors.
David Goodman, Ph.D, M.L.S.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:DGG
On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 2:15 PM, David Gerard<dgerard(a)gmail.com> wrote:
2009/8/28 Thomas Dalton
<thomas.dalton(a)gmail.com>om>:
2009/8/28 David Gerard <dgerard(a)gmail.com>om>:
> Protection is a failure of the wiki model in
the first place.
> Discussion is a poor substitute for editing.
Edit warring is a failure of the wiki model. We
use protection to
force people into a discussion model which works better in those
situations.
Yeah, it's all imperfect. What I mean is, that's a bit of process for
a particular purpose, and if we need it with flagged revs as we do
with full protection, then we can reintroduce it when we do. I think
the lack of visible reward will be helpful in dealing with everyday
edit warriors. (If people with the reviewer bit edit-war with it, one
or both is likely to get a strong word at the very least.)
- d.
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