At 11:44 PM 8/28/2004 +0200, Elisabeth Bauer wrote:
Yesterday I dreamt of a "review queue". There's a common situation: I check an edit on RC, okay, it's not vandalism, but it smells somehow fishy. The problem is, I have no knowledge of the subject (say, it is biology). Currently the only, very stony solution is to leave someone I know who knows about biology a message on his talk page to please have a look at the article. But most people don't do that.
Instead, I could - RC patrol mode switched on in my user pref - select in the diff view the biology-queue, and the edit would go in the review queue of the biologists where someone checks the edit and removes it from the queue (and takes the appropriate measures).
Dunno if that's too complicated, sounds like.
A few days back I proposed something similar to Recentchanges, in which every article would have a link or button that would cause the article to get placed there as a way of drawing attention to dubious content. Clicking the link wouldn't actually change the article, it would just put a link to it out in a prominent position for a little while. Sort of a one-click cleanup queue. I'm hoping that if something like it were implemented it would be used by readers who otherwise wouldn't go to the effort of correcting errors they saw themselves, and so wouldn't otherwise contribute to the project at all.