On 10/9/07, Gregory Maxwell <gmaxwell(a)gmail.com> wrote:
One thing I've seen suggested is making anons
always see the most
recent revision on articles they have recently edited (a session
length cookie could be used for tracking that).
Usability wise that seems tricky. Imagine making an edit, then passing
the link on, only to find that both viewers see different things.
Also, one benefit of having a different default view is to
disincentivize vandalism -- if the user mistakenly _believes_ their
edit has taken effect, vandalism is not disincentivized.
Perhaps it is solvable with reasonably clear UI messages. But I'm not
sure a simple "Your edit has been submitted and will be shown to all
readers pending review" message isn't sufficient.
But at the end we don't need to worry about the
worries: Instead we
can simply use objective measurements. If we turn on users defaulting
to the flagged revisions on ten thousand well distributed articles, we
can then track the performance.
It would probably be least controversial to immediately do it on all
articles that are currently semi-protected. Can you quickly get the
number of those?
It would be slightly more controversial to do on the featured & good articles.
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