In the current specs, this is not included. Mainly, because we did not think it a crucial part.
Personally, I am also not convinced that this is a good idea. If an IP clicks on the edit-button and sees a diff, this will inevitably lead to confusion. We could provide a warning box, but people don't really read these but instead get the feeling that they did something wrong.
I believe that I like the current setting in phase3 more: Directly say that the current version might be editable.
Cheers,
Philipp
2007/5/1, Daniel Arnold arnomane@gmx.de:
I haven' followed the entire debate closely (maybe you have talked about that already) but currently you cannot directly edit a reviewed page (regardless which level/tag).
Currently you have to switch to the current revision until you can edit it. This discadvantage was and is one of the _key arguments_ of people that are against such a system as our "brand" is "edit this page". So the wiki looks closed and "elitist" to the occasional visitor (and you know the press does never look behind the fence in case you expect them to do so). AFAIK this was also a concern raised by Erik (correct me if I am wrong).
The proposed solution to this problem was a modified "edit this page". Instead of just showing the edit window with the current revision it would show a diff to the current revision and below that the edit window with the current text. That way we wouldn't give the impression that we want to "close" the wiki (you know it's like politics, people get things different than you suppose).
However this wouldn't solve the section edit problem on old revisions. So reduced visibility of section edit is something we probably will have to accept.
So how are your plans/ideas about that?
Arnomane
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