[WikiEN-l] One-sentence explanation of pending changes

[Ian Woollard]

"The Wikipedia's aim is to allow virtually anyone to be able to edit
any article. Towards that aim we're testing a scheme where certain
articles that may be locked are going to be opened up to editing.
Under the new scheme, editing by newer editors will have to be double
checked by experienced editors before going live. We expect that the
checking will typically have been done in a few minutes or hours."

"At present this is only a test that will only apply to articles about
living people."

The points are:

a) it's going to allow people to make good faith changes where they
couldn't before
b) other editors are going to do the checking not administrators
c) it's under testing at the moment.
d) it only applies BLP articles

The one sentence challenge is probably something like: "We're doing
*limited* testing of a scheme that means that anyone can edit anything
but changes must have been viewed by an experienced editor before
going live."

On 08/06/2010, David Gerard <dgerard at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 8 June 2010 20:24, Gregory Maxwell <gmaxwell at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> As far as I can tell the living people part isn't accurate.
>
>
> O rly? New one on me. OK ...
>
>
>> "Some of our pages are locked from *anyone* editing them. With this,
>>  we can open those up so anyone can edit the draft version, which then
>>  goes live. Should be on the order of minutes, if it's over an hour
>>  it's too slow. The trial's starting with a limited number of pages
>>  and it is activated with the same process as the one currently used
>>  for locking"
>> Is probably better.
>
>
> Thank you :-)
>
> Last sentence: "We'll trial it by putting a small number of pages in
> 'pending changes' instead of locking them."
>
> That's still grammatically awkward (= bad) and the obvious question
> is, which pages?
>
>
> - d.
>
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-Ian Woollard