[WikiEN-l] So, what is the deal with flagged revisions?

Steve Bennett stevagewp at gmail.com
Thu Aug 27 04:24:53 UTC 2009


So apparently all the press reporting is wrong. What's the real story?
For some reason, I've never actually come across these flagged
revisions, partly because they always seemed to be happening "in the
future some time". What's the policy going to be?

So, quick questions:
1) Is this going to apply to every page?
2) Who gets to flag a revision? Can you flag your own reivsions?
3) What's the interface like? How many clicks?
4) Is there any automatic flagging?
5) Are you supposed to "check" an entire article prior to flagging it?
How confident are you meant to be?
6) What will encourage flaggers to actually bother flagging articles?
7) What will encourage non-flaggers to actually bother editing
articles when they don't have any instant gratification?
8) Which view will long time editors see by default? Stable (flagged)
or non-flagged version?
9) Can non-logged in editors see non-flagged versions?
10) Will this destroy Wikipedia?
11) Will this improve Wikipedia?

Steve



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