[WikiEN-l] Who gets to flag? (BBC Newsnight tonight! re: flagged revs)

[Thomas Dalton]

2009/8/26 David Gerard <dgerard at gmail.com>:
> 2009/8/25 Joseph Reagle <reagle at mit.edu>:
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>> In speaking to the press today, one of the things I believe I heard in an intro segment on a live radio discussion was that WP would have professional editors flagging trusted content. I didn't get a chance to correct that, and I know who gets to review is still up in the air to some extent [1], but that's a likely source of confusion to the public apparently.
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> IME the problem is the use of the word "editor". We use it as in "tens
> of thousands of volunteers", everyone else assumes we mean as in "the
> boss who decides what goes in." It's a jargon versus English problem.

I think the problem comes from the fact that all our articles are
collaborative works. Normally there is a writer and an editor and they
are distinct jobs. We have everyone as editors since everyone can
change what other people have written. That is very unusual and the
English language hasn't had a change to adapt to it.