[Foundation-l] Stable versions live on de.wp

[Andre Engels]

2008/5/7 Lars Aronsson <lars at aronsson.se>:
> Erik Moeller wrote:
>
>> In a nutshell, FlaggedRevs makes it possible to assign
>> quality tags to individual article revisions, and to alter default
>> views based on the available tags.
>
>> Aka hacked up a nice script that shows how many pages have been
>> "sighted" (basic vandalism check) on the German Wikipedia:
>> http://tools.wikimedia.de/~aka/cgi-bin/reviewcnt.cgi?lang=english
>>
>> Given that FlaggedRevs has just been live for a day or so, a review
>> rate of 4.41% is quite impressive!
>
> Wait now.  When FlaggedRevs was first mentioned, the press started
> to announce that censorship was being planned for Wikipedia.
> This was countered with the explanation that flagging was a more
> open regime than page locking.  We no longer have to lock pages on
> controversial topics, because we can allow free editing as long as
> the non-logged-in majority gets to see the flagged/approved
> version.
>
> Is it really "impressive" to have this new "soft locking"
> mechanism applied to a large number of pages?  Wouldn't it be
> better to show how few pages were in need of this protection?
> And at the same time, to mention how many previously locked pages
> have now been unlocked in the name of increased openness?

No, I don't think so. Having a flag on a page is just a way of saying
"this version is ok". Would it not be much better to have a version
that is 'ok' for ALL pages rather than just the controversial ones?
Would it really be a good thing to say "Only these few pages have
versions that are okay, we have no idea about the others, but we see
no reason to think they're not okay?"


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