Joerg wrote:
... next step is to have something along the line of
your icons for
unreviewed/reviewed/stable. Need to integrate it.
The de.WP Sighted/Examined design has three states to be distinguished:
* unrated
* marked as Sighted
* marked as Examined
These states need to be visible in the Version History lists, etc.
I initially thought the proposal to have 3 icons to represent unreviewed, reviewed, and
stable states would work as a way showing the three WP.de states. Unfortunately, it seems
they do not:
To work, the states would have to correspond like this:
* unreviewed = unrated
* reviewed = marked as Sighted
* stable = marked as Examined
The problem with this is that since Sighted is defined to be "reviewed but not
stable", no Sighted version will appear as the default revision of a page, that is,
display of the current vandalized version will be preferred over display of the most
recent Sighted version, as would an ancient Examined version.
I believe this means the unreviewed/reviewed/stable icon idea will not work as is.
I am getting the feeling that we should bite the bullet (in the American idiom) and
recognize in the implementation that the "unvandalized" dimension is special,
and should have certain special treatments.
This is very much as applicable to en.WP as it is to de.WP. Even though en.WP may have
more dimensions (depth, readability, etc) than does de.WP, the English WP still needs to
rely heavily on the "unvandalized" characteristic to make the basic encyclopedia
appear halfway reliable.
"Unvandalized" might be special in these ways:
(1) One can set it without setting any other dimension.
(2) If set and no other rating is set, the "unvandalized" icon is displayed.
(3) Perhaps, the right to set "Unvandalized" can be granted separately from
other review rights.
(4) Perhaps, a non-null setting in any other dimension requires or implies that
"Unvandalized" is set.
The more I think about it, the more it seems to me that the unvandalized attribute fits
into the Wikipedia world in a way fairly different from other dimensions like size (stub,
etc) and readability (Concise, etc).
Thoughts on a treatment of Unvandalized in some way like this?
-RS
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