[WikiEN-l] Flagged Revisions

[Jay Litwyn]

"David Gerard" <dgerard at gmail.com> wrote in message 
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> 2009/8/21 Jay Litwyn <brewhaha at freenet.edmonton.ab.ca>:
>> "David Gerard" <dgerard at gmail.com> wrote in message
>
>>> For the now-largely-abandoned article validation feature, here's a
>>> suggested list:
>>> http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/En_validation_topics#Consolidated_plan
>>> The list there is:
>
>> The whole thing, methinks would be on a RATE tab. "What were you looking
>> for?" is a search box with your current search in it.
>
>
> Oooooh. Well spotted. Yes, the Special:Search page needs a "What were
> you looking for, in detail?/Did you find it?" on it.
>
>
>> I do not think anybody
>> asks all of those questions unless they contribute. If they answer in the
>> positive, then maybe a template should disappear. If they answer in the
>> negative, then maybe it should appear. Of course, if they edit, that 
>> might
>> be a quick way of learning which templates apply, so the user could place
>> the template closer to where it belongs in an article, or just follow 
>> links
>> in the template to directions on making improvements.
>
>
> I'd expect here we're talking about a simple "rate this article"
> clicky thing for readers who can't be bothered editing or are scared
> to, but still want to make Wikipedia better somehow.

It could be a set of five bowling pins on the right quarter of a content 
warning, with a green checkmark on it by default and a red X over it if the 
user clicks. If the user saves a change, then that template disappears and 
they get a message on their talk page telling them how to reinforce their 
change. Most people would go the other way around and delay removing a 
content warning until they had done what they could about it--save final 
change and call it a strike. There could of course be people who can do a 
lot about a content warning without reading any fine manual, then become 
monsters and write more into our manual.
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> (As I noted on the linked page, making full data available to anyone
> who wants it is a good idea, and absolutely appropriate as it's part
> of working on the encyclopedia. That may even go as far as making full
> contributor/IP data available just as article history is. Thinking
> about it, though, that may discourage ratings - they're anonymous on
> most sites.)
>
>
> - d.
>
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