On 3/8/07, darthvader1219@gmail.com darthvader1219@gmail.com wrote:
edits made live yet, and will only make anonymous editing (which from what I understand constitutes the majority of the editing that takes place) of any highly trafficked article more annoying and stressful and could reduce the amount of editing that takes place altogether. It
That's one possible outcome.
would (considering the speed at which any blatant vandalism is reverted) only moderately improve how the encyclopedia looks for the majority of readers at the expense of a rather large amount of
Vastly reducing the chance of driveby vandalism being visible to the outside world is a "moderate improvement"?
inconvenience for the majority of editors, and from my point of view it is simply not worth the negative effects.
What inconvenience for the majority of editors? Logged-in editors would see no difference. Anons would see no difference in most cases, unless the particular text they want to edit has been modified. Minor inconvenience.
Steve