Sascha Noyes writes:
Lots of vandalism and copyright violations [and other unethical editing] sneak past the RecentChanges patrol.
Sure; the real issue is that RecentChanges is too overwhelming for effective peer review. I think it should be divided up so it might be conquered. I disagree with watchlists as they are perhaps too individualistic to encourage people to watch things they have not seen. Rather, you need RecentChanges to remain the Commons.
The most obvious way to split it is by subject focus. I recognize categorization is philosophically problematic, but I have what I think is a better idea called DigestedChanges. I apologize this is still in sketch form, but you might get the gist from
http://www.usemod.com/cgi-bin/mb.pl?DigestedChanges
Essentially I propose making 'weblogs' of Wikipedia's changes. Each group might build its own group weblog if they wish, although that is simply better watchlists again, it may attract people to read collaborated digests if they are interested in a particular subject field. If that fails, you can restrict which and how many digests there are.
At least that would better organize the information so it is 'digestable'.
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