2007/4/26, R. S. Shaw shaww@inbox.com:
One difficulty here is what the 'sighted' state will be known as in the non-German encyclopedias. In English, "Sighted" in this context is odd and doesn't communicate much (in my estimation). Maybe it can be used, or maybe some other term that is similar in theme, such as 'seen', 'surveyed', or 'skimmed'.
The terms will be "gesichtet" (see [[de:Wikipedia:Gesichtete Versionen]]) and "geprueft" (see [[de:Wikipedia:Gepürfte Versionen]]). "Sichten" means something like browsing/skimming through text. However, I have absolutely no idea about the connotations a native speaker has with skimmed/browsed/sighted/whatever, so please help :-)
In that vision theme, one 'positive' icon would be an eye (eyeball). In American slang, 'eyeballing' means going over something with some, but not overly much, attention.
As long as we are not associated with the Illuminati ;-)
Bye,
Philipp