David Goodman wrote:
If enWikipedia has only 4,000 active editors, and we don't do better at this than, we are going to keep up with only a very few articles. The plan will work , though, for the most watched articles, fortunately where they are needed, because that's the ones where people people catch errors now. In other words, as a substitute for semi-protection for most semi'd pages, not flagging a significant number of pages addition to them. It won't do a thing to reduce the gross vandalism that now gets uncaught for hours. It might provide a clearer focus on the ones that get caught in a few minutes, and keep the vandalism off them for those few minutes. But that's all that can be expected of it
Of course, if we are talking about the work that will get done, it is most important to answer the question "should this work be getting done?" And that seems a clear "Yes". We don't ever get the "magic bullet" technical solution that ensures that everything gets done that should be. That is not how the system works, it's the asymptote.
Charles