On 3/4/06, Jonathan dzonatas@dzonux.net wrote:
Jay Converse wrote:
This essentially removes a lot of the accountability of edits, though. What's the point of having things like 3RR when the only way to verify
that
one person is reverting multiple times is by dragging a steward or bcrat over to an article? There are so many content disputes raging at any
given
time we'd either have to massively beef up the bcrat force or watch
articles
spiral into doom as a content dispute rages on without anyone being available to help straighten things out.
-- Jay Converse
Such revert wars can be checked by technological means also, so we would not need to beef up stewards or bureaucrats. For example, if the software detects a revert war, then it can allow admins to see who has edited.
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But how do we code in what is and isn't a revert war? Things like that usually require a judgment call, so waiting for it to get "flagged" just to see what's going on can waste time.
Also, I'm an idiot when it comes to copyright stuff, but don't we have to publicly attribute everything under the GFDL?
-- Jay Converse I'm not stupid, just selectively ignorant.