Dear John,
Sorry if I did not follow that entire conversation, but I would like
to support the idea that we need more communication with IP and new
users.
I am not peticular happy with the notion "stable version", which comes
from software development and should stay there. What you have
described is certainly not happening on de.WP or eo.WP (where I know
"Flagged Revisions" from). Flagged revisions simply means that edits
from new people are not immediately visible to the general public,
that's all.
Kind regards
Ziko
2009/7/25 John at Darkstar <vacuum(a)jeb.no>no>:
One thing I like with the stable versions is that it
is possible to keep
one version stable while discussions about a future version goes on.
This makes it possible to have a discussion with the contributors about
how to solve a problem without reverting them, and to let them
A third thing we should do is to make something like
the chat feature in
Facebook, but instead of organizing it around users communicating with
other users we should organize them as chatrooms about the articles.
This chatroom could give more specific information about the reminder
and also let the user speak to the admin who posted the reminder.
Instead of an admin yelling to a newcomer in big letter after an edit
conflict the user gets a reminder and an option to talk to the admin.
This opens dialog and understanding. Add in the stable versions and we
get a lot more flexibility and an environment that supports education of
--
Ziko van Dijk
NL-Silvolde