[WikiEN-l] BBC article on Flagged Revisions

[Gwern Branwen]

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On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 8:35 PM, brewhaha%40edmc.net
 wrote:
> E-mailing revisions to an author concerned with the article you want to
> revise would do about the same thing, plus, rather than having a few
> volunteers for the process and the resulting Jerman experience with a
> backlog and weeks of delay, that author might hav time to offer feedback,
> including the potential for a personal block or a polite refusal to be your
> proxy.

So you would add yet another layer of bureaucracy? At that point -
having to manually email in diffs and change them based on an editor's
say-so - it's about as easy to contribute to a Wikipedia article as a
Knol article.

In case you don't follow me: with any system that makes contributing
as much of an ordeal as that, we can basically kiss goodbye to
anonymous edits. At that point, it'd be more efficient to ban
anonymous edits altogether.

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gwern
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