Daniel Mayer wrote:
--- Timwi timwi@gmx.net wrote:
... Wikipedia brags about its self-healing abilities. People patrolling RC and NP are valuable because they make this self-healing work. The "correct" way to "fix" this situation is what Daniel Mayer mentioned: Allowing logged-in users (or only admins) to "flag" an edit to show others that it's been looked at. This eliminates duplicate work, but it does not restrict the ability of anyone to post new articles or make any other edit.
If we did have such a team-based approach to patrol, then we may be able to delay having to start locking things up for some time - perhaps indefinitely.
So yes, that would be the best of all proposed options.
How about just displaying a count of how many logged-in users (or admins) have looked at an article? If I've looked at an article and done nothing about it, then it's probably an acceptable start. New articles with low view counts will likely benefit from more early attention than ones who've already been viewed a lot.
Stan