On 07/08/2010, David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com wrote:
Personally I wouldn't objecting to putting FAs into flagged revs for the day they're on the front page. This would present the pretty face and still allow the IPs in. But I don't feel strongly enough to particularly press the point.
Personally I think that eventually *all* FAs should be put at least under flagged revision.
Or that seems IMO to be a reasonable goal (long term) if the flagged revisions experiment works out and they get rid of any remaining performance issues.
The reason is that improving articles is going to get more and more difficult; there will have been lots and lots and lots and lots of really smart people that have polished those articles over many, many years, and the chances of any random edit being an improvement is, realistically, going down with time, particularly for FA articles.
Past some point, say, >90% of edits to the highest quality articles are going to be by somebody not understanding something or vandalising something. On some articles we're probably already there, but people are somewhat in denial about it.
Which isn't to say we'll ever going to have *provably* seen the last edit on any article, which is why flagged revisions seems a reasonable idea, rather than locking.
- d.