[WikiEN-l] Date vandalism

[Ian Woollard]

On 23/08/06, Gregory Maxwell <gmaxwell at gmail.com> wrote:
> An example:
> Tonight I reverted a date vandalism to [[Pioneer plaque]] which was
> made over a year ago
> (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Pioneer_plaque&diff=14242706&oldid=13186287).
>
> In that case, it would appear that the edits of a good user hid the bad diff.
>
> Does anyone have any good ideas kicking around in their heads on how
> to improve this situation... I've thought of some things but I'd like
> to collect some ideas.

Yeah, in my view this is really a problem with the current wikipedia
software- it doesn't highlight the low-fidelity nature of a previous
edit and the good standing user ends up essentially authorising the
edit.

In other words, if editors are shown a diff from anonymous or low edit
count editors they are much more likely to check it out.

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-Ian Woollard

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