Not letting unregistered users edit controversial pages at all is surely less intrusive than holding their edits for review?
Yes, because I think 99.9% of all unregistered user actions are reading, not editing. Therefore we are dabbling with the unregistered user's Wikipedia experience in a much larger way - not by holding their edits, but by not showing the most current version (which, by the way, will in most cases not even be an anonymous edit).
Ulrich
The last edit is most likely an edit by a trusted user that will autoconfirm his own edit.
I think it is urgent to make a demosite to show people the system and how it works.
John E
ulim wrote:
Not letting unregistered users edit controversial pages at all is surely less intrusive than holding their edits for review?
Yes, because I think 99.9% of all unregistered user actions are reading, not editing. Therefore we are dabbling with the unregistered user's Wikipedia experience in a much larger way - not by holding their edits, but by not showing the most current version (which, by the way, will in most cases not even be an anonymous edit).
Ulrich
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2007/9/24, ulim ulim@mayring.de:
Not letting unregistered users edit controversial pages at all is surely less intrusive than holding their edits for review?
Yes, because I think 99.9% of all unregistered user actions are reading, not editing. Therefore we are dabbling with the unregistered user's Wikipedia experience in a much larger way - not by holding their edits, but by not showing the most current version (which, by the way, will in most cases not even be an anonymous edit).
This makes the assumption that Sighted versions won't scale. If they do scale, readers will usually see the current revision. If they do not scale, they won't and then the concept would have to be rethougt, improved or scrapped. In the development of the feature, we have discussed usability and scalability and lenght and put a lot of effort into this. And we still want to improve this in the betatest! So all in all, please wait for the betatest and have an actual look at the software before making judgements.
Bye,
Philipp
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