On 8/27/06, David Gerard <dgerard(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On 27/08/06, Gordon Joly <gordon.joly(a)pobox.com>
wrote:
http://news.com.com/Can+German+engineering+fix+Wikipedia/2100-1038_3-610849…
A related source.... not the BBC.
"We want to let anybody edit," Wales said, "but we don't want to show
vandalized versions."
Yeah. When did Jimbo first ask for this, early 2005? People pretty
much concurred it was a fantastic idea (logged-in editors get the live
version, anon readers get the last-non-vandal-edit version), but it
was considered technically rather painful indeed in the then-current
structure of Mediawiki.
If it looks workable now, that's fantastic, and should help make it a
better no. 17 website in the world *and* a good perpetual working
draft.
- d.
As I recall, we were happy when the proposed mechanism had a
ten-minute or so time out mechanism, so it didn't turn into a ''de
facto'' anon-edits-must-be-approved rather than an anti-vandalism
mechanism, and to assure the anon that yes, the edit would show up
soon. The de system seems to differ from the one we discussed.
~maru