On Mon, 8 Nov 2004 00:01:57 +0000, phil hunt zen19725@zen.co.uk wrote:
On Sun, 7 Nov 2004 07:43:45 -0800, Jimmy (Jimbo) Wales jwales@wikia.com wrote:
I don't have an exact solution for the goatse.cx case, though I think the answer probably needs to be softer than "protect the article" when the subject is both popular and rapidly changing. I advocate the development of some sort of "delayed publish" mechanism whereby edits don't appear on the main url until some time has passed.
That sounds a damn good idea.
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I've only recently been catching up with some mailing list posts. Has anyone further investigated the delayed publish idea? To be honest, I had naively not even considered such a scenario as described, yet have been happily evangelising for Wikipedia to friends and family. I would be appalled to have someone I know come back to me and say, "Well, I visited that Wikipedia thing, and do you know what I found..."
As far as I'm concerned, I will certainly be curtailing my general describing of Wikipedia as a nice happy place with fluffy bunnies.
Zoney