On 9/9/07, Florence Devouard Anthere9@yahoo.com wrote:
Another thing I would like to see is for an anonymous editor visiting the website, have the opportunity to very simply change the viewing system "view by default flagged versions when available" or "always see the latest version for all articles". Toggle type.
Yeah, but hopefully worded a little more approachably: Wikipedia vs WikipediaHot! or something. Where are our marketing people? :)
Otherwise, I mostly hope that there will be discussions, plain rejection of the tool or acceptance with improvment.
What I hope will NOT happen is a system where editors say
"we are happy to have this system only if there are improvementx X and Y". Then setting the system on with a promise that the improvements are coming in soon. Then see a situation such as the Single Login, where the so-called improvements take 5 years to be done. This would be very wrong.
God I wish we had a specifications document somewhere so we could argue meaningfully over what we actually want or don't want. So far there seem to be a few different conceptions of what the community has asked for and what is actually going to be delivered.
Steve