Lack of visible reward. Yes I think that's is it, or part of it anyway. It's why I've been fixated at Knol for a while. Wanting to see my own name in lights. Too bad Wikipedia couldn't have a sister project for publishing scholarly papers. Or could we? Or do we?
Will Johnson
-----Original Message----- From: David Goodman dgoodmanny@gmail.com To: English Wikipedia wikien-l@lists.wikimedia.org Sent: Fri, Aug 28, 2009 7:08 pm Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] So, what is the deal with flagged revisions?
the lack of visible reward will have the same effect on them as on new contributors.
David Goodman, Ph.D, M.L.S. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:DGG
On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 2:15 PM, David Gerarddgerard@gmail.com wrote:
2009/8/28 Thomas Dalton thomas.dalton@gmail.com:
2009/8/28 David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com:
Protection is a failure of the wiki model in the first place. Discussion is a poor substitute for editing.
Edit warring is a failure of the wiki model. We use protection to force people into a discussion model which works better in those situations.
Yeah, it's all imperfect. What I mean is, that's a bit of process for a particular purpose, and if we need it with flagged revs as we do with full protection, then we can reintroduce it when we do. I think the lack of visible reward will be helpful in dealing with everyday edit warriors. (If people with the reviewer bit edit-war with it, one or both is likely to get a strong word at the very least.)
- d.
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