On 13/04/06, Ben Greenberg bengreenb@hotmail.com wrote:
It doesn't seem to me like Greasemonkey could solve the systemic problem-- it'd just help deal with it better for a couple individual users who choose to use it. How could we systemically work to prevent deterioration? I've identified the following causes:
1.Multiple vandalisms, where only some are reverted
This can be better detected with tools that show multiple diffs at once.
2.Additions of poorly written stuff, but stuff not bad enough to warrant straight up reverting.
An almost untreatable problem.
3.Citations getting removed
Sucks, don't it.
4.Unecessary factoids and observations getting added.
That's Wikipedia - I don't think that's always a "problem" as such, they just have to be distilled into something encyclopaedic. Sometimes those factoids can lead somewhere...
Steve