[WikiEN-l] So, what is the deal with flagged revisions?

[wjhonson at aol.com]

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 at gmail.com>
To: English Wikipedia <wikien-l at 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 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 2009/8/28 Thomas Dalton <thomas.dalton at gmail.com>:
>> 2009/8/28 David Gerard <dgerard at gmail.com>:
>
>>> 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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