On 30 September 2010 05:55, Michael Snow wikipedia@frontier.com wrote:
Whether or not it was reasonable to expect the feature to solve this problem on the first try, I don't think we should settle for that as our goal. This particular kind of case is mostly driven by media appeal and is not the best objective to focus on for accomplishing our mission. What the English Wikipedia really needs is to be able to reverse the situation that has prevailed since the Seigenthaler incident, so that people can write new articles and material without having to create an account or endure a waiting period, and the project can stay closer to the notion of being an encyclopedia anyone can edit. For me, any attraction that developing a "flagged revisions" or "pending changes" feature has ever had is connected to the potential that it would lead to an environment in which we can restore that ability for unregistered contributors.
We already have the patrolled function on new pages.