On 12/15/05, Ray Saintonge saintonge@telus.net wrote:
geni wrote:
On 12/13/05, Tony Sidaway f.crdfa@gmail.com wrote:
On 12/13/05, Ray Saintonge saintonge@telus.net wrote:
In all fairness Googling, then adding the information is a lot of work.
It's a couple of minutes. And at the end of it you have a useful article instead of a hole in the ground.
Nocking out people on RC patrol for couple of minutes soon results in the loss of RC patrol as they are all of researching stuff.
For once I have to agree with you.. You may find it hard to believe that I was the one who on Wiktionary was taking the most vocal stand for riddding us of some of the nonsense vocabulary that was being proposed. :-)
Ec
That's why it needs to be a multi-step process. RC patrol makes a basic check, and others do the further research. Task management would probably be the perfect solution for organizing this process, but a simple interface to quickly add something to the talk page directly from the diff page would be easy to program and just about as useful.
Let's add a one line text field at the top or bottom of the diff page: you fill out a quick summary, and it automatically gets added to the talk page, complete with a link to the diff.
A revert button for non-obvious vandalism would be nice too. This could be used by non-admins as well as admins, and you'd have to describe the reason for your revert which would appear on the talk page (with the diff) as well as the comments field of the history.
In fact, it'd be great if you could just check a box for any edit which said "copy this edit summary to the talk page". The whole three step-process (edit, get diff, comment on talk page) of being bold and making a change which you're not 100% sure of is too difficult. Bonus points if you can figure out how to thread multiple changes to the same text under a single talk page section :).
But for starters, let's add that one line text field on the diff page. It'd be a really simple software change.
Anthony