On 12/13/05, John Lee <johnleemk(a)gawab.com>
wrote:
Andrea Forte wrote:
Has it ever been suggested before that a simple
indicator of "how many
people are watching this article" could be a useful tool for:
users who want to figure out what to trust
wikipedians who want to know where to spend their efforts
discouraging vandalism
Has this been tried? Suggested? Debated?
Just curious,
Andrea
It's not exactly new, but I've never figured out why it hasn't been
explored further.
One of the drawbacks is that vandals would be able to target articles that
have zero users watching them.
That's not true. An article with zero watchers still shows up on
Recent Changes, where anyone doing RC patrol can see what's happening.
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Mark Wagner