On 12/21/10 4:17 PM, Carcharoth wrote:
Has anyone ever suggested a way for people to
highlight a mistake and
click to bring it to someone else's attention? But without logging any
IP address. I suppose that sort of system would get overwhelmed by
trolls very quickly. Maybe an off-wiki system to allow people using
Wikipedia to generate a note for themselves on corrections to make
later on?
That seems more complex than fixing a simple typo. If I can go in and
make a simple spelling correction it's done very quickly. On the other
hand if I need to explain what needs fixing and where it is in a site
it's just not worth my while.
Ec
This would be a generic equivalent of the Fix family of templates based
on Template:Fix
I hate this coding but selecting the text which needs attention and
hitting enter could create a popup where the problem could be explained
or at least noted, if the person did not want to spend time on it.
Selection from a checklist would put tags like "spelling" "verification
needed" "Source?" in at the end of the highlighted text. We have a wide
variety of such template, although I would be at a loss to remember them
all or use them without a crutch like the popup I suggest. A new editor,
could never, of course. These templates are simple but there are lots of
them, often duplicating each other.
Fred Bauder