[WikiEN-l] purpose served by anonymity / unmoderated edits

[John Lee]

On 3/20/07, Bennett Haselton <bennett at peacefire.org> wrote:
>
> >- Can we really present this in a useful way to the public? "This
> >article is unverified. However, 3 months and 280 revisions ago, an
> >expert from a university you've never heard of verified it as
> >accurate." Um...
>
> In the Citizendium model, once an article is approved, that's the version
> that people see by default, and the next one in the pipeline only replaces
> the current version after the assigned editor has signed off on that too.


This strikes me as a major disincentive to have articles verified, since
then it would mean all future edits have to go through an expert who may or
may not be free to review the edits on a timely basis.

Johnleemk