2007/9/24, Andrew Whitworth wknight8111@hotmail.com:
As it is planned, the feature is simply too intrusive. Once an article is flagged as "sighted", there is no way back.
I have to wonder whether this is a valid concern or not? I have not read all the documentation, so forgive this post if it's totally ignorant. It has been my assumption that FlaggedRevs would allow us to flag an article, unflag an article, or update a flag on an artical. Ie, an article that has been flagged previously should be able to have that flag removed and the most current revision of the page displayed by default. Is this the case?
No, this is indeed a valid concern. A feature that allows to unflag an article is not included. Unflagging sort of happens by creating a new version and flagging that one instead. So, once an article has been flagged, it is "in the system". However, initially no article is flagged.
Nevertheless, In the limit, when you assume that every article has been flagged, every edit by non-editors (IPs and recently created accounts) would have to be flagged or reverted in a reasonable amount of time. This is the question of scaling. Does a wiki manage this? Then everything is fine. If not, then either the software will have to be improved in this aspect (which will be one of the goals of the Beta) or you shouldn't use this setting of flagged revisions. In particular young wikis should simply not use it.
As for other settings, there currently is simply the setting to always show the current version, but still links to sighted or quality versions. As Erik said, in the future there will also be a per-page-feature that allows to toggle the default view per page.
Bye,
Philipp