[WikiEN-l] So, has the need for consensus in wikipedia been eliminated?

[Chris Howie]

On Jan 10, 2008 11:19 AM, Majorly <axel9891 at googlemail.com> wrote:

> You are over-exaggerating my comments. Do you really expect a four day old
> account to know how to use rollback appropriately? I certainly don't, and
> I
> think having a scarred block log for messing up with a rather powerful
> tool
> that until the other day only admins could have is a little unfair to the
> user.
>

How about it's an option buried in preferences then?  If it's off (default)
then rollback links aren't shown.  When they become more experienced someone
can direct them to turn it on.

And btw, I don't see how a four day old editor would know how to edit
properly either, at least they wouldn't know the MOS well enough to follow
every detail.  Different cases, yes, but still, we're giving a hell of a lot
more power away by letting people edit the content of pages than just roll
back versions.

(This is the kind of discussion that should have taken place on-wiki,
*before* this thing was implemented.)

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Chris Howie
http://www.chrishowie.com
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Crazycomputers