[WikiEN-l] WTF Have I Missed?

[Gordon Joly]

At 12:15 -0500 27/8/06, Kelly Martin wrote:
>On 8/27/06, Stephen Streater <sbstreater at mac.com> wrote:
>>
>>  So what exactly is being proposed?
>
>Anonymous readers of an article will be displayed the most recent
>revision of that article which has been marked by a trusted user as
>being free of vandalism.  There may be more recent revisions, but
>those will not be displayed by default; readers will have to
>specifically request to see them.  A consequence of this is that edits
>made by anonymous readers will not be immediately displayed as the
>"primary" revision of an article.  This is being misrepresented by
>some as imposing an approval requirement on such edits before they
>become visible, but that's not what it is; such edits are immediately
>visible as they are now, just not as the primary version which is
>displayed by default to anonymous readers.
>
>I, personally, see this as a great benefit to the vast bulk of our
>customers: the chances that Joe Q. Public will go to an article he
>found by a Google search and be confronted by unexpected penis go WAY
>down with this approach.
>
>Kelly


http://news.com.com/Can+German+engineering+fix+Wikipedia/2100-1038_3-6108495.html


A related source.... not the BBC.


"We want to let anybody edit," Wales said, "but we don't want to show 
vandalized versions."


Gordo


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