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

[Sage Ross]

On Sat, Aug 29, 2009 at 1:29 PM, Emily Monroe<bluecaliocean at me.com> wrote:

>>> 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.)
>>>
>> the lack of visible reward will have the same effect on them as on
>> new contributors.
>
> What can we do about that?
>

This is a bit of a tangent, but I think there's actually a huge amount
of potential for building other types of visible rewards into the
system (beyond the gratification of seeing one's edits go live).  We
do almost nothing to systematically point editors toward high-priority
tasks.

There are a lot of ways that might be done; here's an idea I wrote up
after other people brought it up at a recent Boston meetup:
http://strategy.wikimedia.org/wiki/Proposal:Add_video_game-like_features

-Sage