[WikiEN-l] So what does Flagged Revs feel like?

[Gwern Branwen]

On Sat, Sep 26, 2009 at 6:20 AM, David Gerard <dgerard at gmail.com> wrote:
> If you want to know how Flagged Revisions feels from an unprivileged
> position, go to Wikinews and fix typos. I just did this on
> http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Geelong_win_2009_Australian_Football_League_Grand_Final
> - check the history. I'm not an admin or reviewer on en:wn.
>
> What did it feel like? Curiously unsatisfying. The fix not going live
> immediately left me wondering just when it would - five minutes/? An
> hour? A day? It felt nothing like editing a wiki - it felt like I'd
> submitted a form to a completely opaque bureaucracy for review at
> their leisure.
>
> Don't take my word for it - go typo-fixing on Wikinews and tell me how
> it feels to you.
>
> So, yeah. I remain a big fan of flagged revisions for those times when
> we need it - basically, as a less-worse alternative to protection or
> semiprotection. But it really does kill the wiki motivational buzz
> dead.
>
>
> - d.

"After the posting of the 26th May
The Secretary of the WM Foundation
Had articles distributed in the MSM
Stating that the editors
Had forfeited the confidence of the foundation
And could win it back only
By redoubled efforts. Would it not be easier
In that case for the foundation
To dissolve the community
And elect another?"

(With apologies to Bertolt Brecht.)

-- 
gwern
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