The answer is pretty obvious in that more diverse ways of sorting RC for different uses. People can get organized all they want, but its pointless to do without the tools to handle the massive numbers. Watchlists only work for hardcore users, and even then it can be a pain, when you find you inflexible it is. (Multiple watchlists would be nice... [1],[2],[3],[4]...).
The sorting by all available namespaces, doesnt really help sorting out the "too much data" problem because 98 percent of the "vandalism" is in the Main namespace -- ie. articles. The sort RC by anon or logged-in users is useful, but its only a one-trick pony (in two different ways), because its only useful for RC patrolling, and does so focusing only on IPs (who happen to make up 20 percent of WP's contributors).
The answer seems like it will be some kind of fine-tuned context-subject sorting, based on the Category scheme. So people can sort RC by SUBJECT OF INTEREST, rather than by an abstract data quantity like login/IP/namespace etc. It's got to be harder to do, as it draws from a user-defined list of categories. There will no doubt be overlap, etc. (Has noone tried to graphically map wikipedia by the way?)
I wonder if the Wikipedia:TOC couldnt just be replicated with Related Changes links instead of Cat links. Someone with sysop privs could even stick that at the top of the main RC....
Stevertigo
--- geni geniice@gmail.com wrote:
On 12/1/05, Sam Korn smoddy@gmail.com wrote:
On 12/1/05, geni geniice@gmail.com wrote:
No. We tried it and it didn't work.
It could, however, be made to work if it were
integrated into the IRC
feeds and made to work with CDVF. I think there
would have to be some
bueaucracy with it, though. There would have to
be a level of user (I
know this is already programmed in) that can mark
edits as patrolled,
and this would have to be separately granted. It
would just need a
little evidence of vandal fighting, just so the
simple vandals can't
get in.
This doesn't seem unreasonable if it were to be
programmed.
-- Sam
Have you any idea how fast wikipedia gets edited? the system breaks down because by time someone could be looking at what edits have been missed they are 50 edits ago and off the first page.
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