On 23/08/06, Gregory Maxwell gmaxwell@gmail.com wrote:
An example: Tonight I reverted a date vandalism to [[Pioneer plaque]] which was made over a year ago (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Pioneer_plaque&diff=14242706&a...).
In that case, it would appear that the edits of a good user hid the bad diff.
Does anyone have any good ideas kicking around in their heads on how to improve this situation... I've thought of some things but I'd like to collect some ideas.
Yeah, in my view this is really a problem with the current wikipedia software- it doesn't highlight the low-fidelity nature of a previous edit and the good standing user ends up essentially authorising the edit.
In other words, if editors are shown a diff from anonymous or low edit count editors they are much more likely to check it out.