[WikiEN-l] Fwd: [Wikiquality-l] Current Status

[Steve Summit]

Tonay Sidaway wrote:
> On 14/01/2008, David Gerard <dgerard at gmail.com> wrote:
> > The FlaggedRevs code shudders forward!
>
> Sorry to be so pessimistic, but since we've  taken more than two years
> as a community to accept a trivial revision of the software that
> permits non-administrators to revert vandalism in a single step, and
> we're still wobbly about that, what possibility does this large-scale
> and revolutionary change have of ever being accepted on English
> Wikipedia?

Yes, I'd say you're being unduly pessimistic.  Rollback was a
trivial, unimportant change that a few people wanted.  Flagged
revisions is an important, beneficial change that everybody wants.
There *is* a difference (I hope).