The time-lag for anons. would greatly reduce the gratification and "rewards" of making vandalism edits. That would help a lot in reducing the volume of vandalism. I'm not sure if/how stable versions fits into this, but think it probably can be considered as a separate matter.
-Aude
On 3/8/07, Steve Bennett stevagewp@gmail.com wrote:
On 3/9/07, Delirium delirium@hackish.org wrote:
I recall bringing the issue up on this mailing list (or possibly wikipedia-l?) a few months ago, and not only was consensus strongly in favor, but there wasn't a *single* post opposed to it. There were just disagreements over the best way to do it.
Depends what issue you're talking about. I strongly prefer a time-lag model to a stable version model. If you're conflating the two, yes I'm in favour of doing *something*. If you're separating them, I'm against the stable version model.
The stable version model is along the lines of certain users designating a particular revision as being "stable" and that being the one displayed to the outside world, permanently, until another "stable version" is chosen. It seems to have such obvious drawbacks:
- choosing users to do the designation
- stable versions being horribly out of date
- killing the wiki model completely (now almost no one can edit and
get the instant feedback)
Steve
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