[WikiEN-l] Banning for bad edits

[Sunir Shah]

Sascha Noyes writes:
> Lots of vandalism and copyright violations [and other
> unethical editing] sneak past the RecentChanges patrol.

Sure; the real issue is that RecentChanges is too 
overwhelming for effective peer review. I think it 
should be divided up so it might be conquered. I 
disagree with watchlists as they are perhaps too 
individualistic to encourage people to watch things 
they have not seen. Rather, you need RecentChanges 
to remain the Commons.

The most obvious way to split it is by subject focus. 
I recognize categorization is philosophically problematic, 
but I have what I think is a better idea called 
DigestedChanges. I apologize this is still in sketch 
form, but you might get the gist from

    http://www.usemod.com/cgi-bin/mb.pl?DigestedChanges

Essentially I propose making 'weblogs' of Wikipedia's
changes. Each group might build its own group weblog if
they wish, although that is simply better watchlists 
again, it may attract people to read collaborated 
digests if they are interested in a particular subject 
field. If that fails, you can restrict which and how 
many digests there are.

At least that would better organize the information
so it is 'digestable'.

SS