On Sun, Oct 17, 2010 at 3:23 PM, Q overlordq@gmail.com wrote:
On 10/17/2010 7:54 AM, Gerard Meijssen wrote:
Hoi, If you understand the issue, you would know who decides what qualifies as vandalism. It is exactly the same people who already decide what vandalism is.
So basically you want anybody who visits the website to be able to tell google to fast-track reindex a page and you think google will go for that?
It seems a bit strange to me to expect Google (or anyone external) to devote more effort to vandalized than to useful Wikipedia content.
I also disagree with the diagnosis in the above-mentioned blog post, which reads "So where does the problem lie? With the search engine information refresh rate."
In my view, the problem lies primarily with Wikipedia, and specifically with vandalism being too voluminous and too visible to the public. Technical solutions for both issues exist, and those addressing the second kind have the potential to be accepted by the community.
Daniel