On 3/3/06, Daniel Mayer maveric149@yahoo.com wrote:
I don't think we expect to get much improvement to the front page FA from anons. We just want to prove that they can edit.
What? TFA is not a sandbox.
It kind of almost is. And it always has enough people watching it to clean up the mess. But yeah it's a pity that we can't actually delay anon edits.
We don't need to encourage people to edit because we have 200 times as many readers as editors? I disagree.
Very few people create information yet we all consume it. That is a fact of life.
I mean, I find the logic that the shortage of editors means we don't need more editors a bit strange.
There will be a minor undesirable side effect of denying anons and new users the instant gratification of having their valid fix or addition delayed. But that is greatly mitigated by
5 minutes would be nearly "instant". And it would be great if it was a per-page setting that could be tweaked, so 5 minutes for the main FA, 6 hours for less-watched but equally target pages like Abortion or something, and maybe even 0 by default?
the
much, much longer time their edits will be viewable by all and the fact that getting rid of the delay is something that only takes a bit of time and effort on their part (becoming an editor in good standing ; should be auto-determined based on age of account and number of non-reverted edits).
I would be happy for all logged in editors to be exempt, which would be in line with similar policies.
Steve