Users may do most of the editing in terms of number of edits, but original
information (even is misformatted) comes, right now, predominantly from
anonymous users. I believe that they will be disincentivated to edit, if
their edits won't be reflected immediately, and I think the process that has
made the Wikipedia so rich risks an abrupt slowing.
Luca
On Oct 8, 2007 8:33 PM, Aaron Schulz <jschulz_4587(a)msn.com> wrote:
I don't think that is a good idea. It removes
much of the editing
incentive of getting an account and makes editing more tiresome for those
who edit the most (users).
-Aaron Schulz
Date: Mon, 8 Oct 2007 18:16:03 -0700
From: jleybov(a)gmail.com
To: wikiquality-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org
Subject: [Wikiquality-l] default views
All,
The proposed behavior of the flagged revision extension is to show the
last reviewed version only to anonymous users. I submit that this is
should be default behavior for ALL users (subject to personalization
settings override, I guess). The question here is not just of
vandalism control, but also of making Wikipedia's content creation
process more deliberative. The power to command an article's content
by submitting the last edit is an incentive not only for vandalism,
but also the sort of uncivil version contention that has long been
damaging the community's social fabric. In making the last reviewed
version of an article the default view for practically ALL users, we
remove the incentive for not just vandalism, but all sorts of unsocial
behavior.
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