Dear John, Sorry if I did not follow that entire conversation, but I would like to support the idea that we need more communication with IP and new users. I am not peticular happy with the notion "stable version", which comes from software development and should stay there. What you have described is certainly not happening on de.WP or eo.WP (where I know "Flagged Revisions" from). Flagged revisions simply means that edits from new people are not immediately visible to the general public, that's all. Kind regards Ziko
2009/7/25 John at Darkstar vacuum@jeb.no:
One thing I like with the stable versions is that it is possible to keep one version stable while discussions about a future version goes on. This makes it possible to have a discussion with the contributors about how to solve a problem without reverting them, and to let them
A third thing we should do is to make something like the chat feature in Facebook, but instead of organizing it around users communicating with other users we should organize them as chatrooms about the articles. This chatroom could give more specific information about the reminder and also let the user speak to the admin who posted the reminder.
Instead of an admin yelling to a newcomer in big letter after an edit conflict the user gets a reminder and an option to talk to the admin. This opens dialog and understanding. Add in the stable versions and we get a lot more flexibility and an environment that supports education of