[WikiEN-l] Dealing with juvenile vandalism

[Steve Bennett]

On 3/8/07, Steve Bennett <stevagewp at gmail.com> wrote:
> So you see, at 8:05, a registered editor sees the anon change, and
> fixes it. Since the editor is registered, their change goes live
> straight away.

The obvious benefits here:
- The world never saw the anon's (bad) edits
- Registered editors were not inconvenienced at all
- There is still scope for anon's edits to make it to the outside
world. The 15 minute delay above could be 5 minutes for a heavily
patrolled article, or 3 days for a more obscure one.

Unsolved questions:
- What happens if a registered editor edits some unrelated part of the
article? Is any change considered to implicitly "approve" any pending
anon edits?
- What version of the page should the anon see? His changes? Is this
even possible?
- What version of the page should other anons see if they edit?
Presumably the real version...

Steve