Erik Moeller wrote:
In a nutshell, FlaggedRevs makes it possible to assign quality tags to individual article revisions, and to alter default views based on the available tags.
Aka hacked up a nice script that shows how many pages have been "sighted" (basic vandalism check) on the German Wikipedia: http://tools.wikimedia.de/~aka/cgi-bin/reviewcnt.cgi?lang=english
Given that FlaggedRevs has just been live for a day or so, a review rate of 4.41% is quite impressive!
Wait now. When FlaggedRevs was first mentioned, the press started to announce that censorship was being planned for Wikipedia. This was countered with the explanation that flagging was a more open regime than page locking. We no longer have to lock pages on controversial topics, because we can allow free editing as long as the non-logged-in majority gets to see the flagged/approved version.
Is it really "impressive" to have this new "soft locking" mechanism applied to a large number of pages? Wouldn't it be better to show how few pages were in need of this protection? And at the same time, to mention how many previously locked pages have now been unlocked in the name of increased openness?