[WikiEN-l] Flagged protection and patrolled revisions

[David Goodman]

agreed on that. I'm very apprehensive about the possible negative
effect on new contributors, but this seems a good solution


David Goodman, Ph.D, M.L.S.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:DGG



On Fri, May 7, 2010 at 8:36 PM, Gregory Maxwell <gmaxwell at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, May 7, 2010 at 1:25 PM, Aryeh Gregor
> <Simetrical+wikilist at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Thu, May 6, 2010 at 7:38 PM, Gregory Maxwell <gmaxwell at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> The message currently delivered by the software is:
>>> "Edits must be reviewed before being published on this page. "
>>>
>>> And yet the edit will be instantly available to every person on earth
>>> (well, at least all of the people who can currently access Wikipedia)
>>> the moment it is saved.   The interface text is misleading. It is not
>>> a good example of transparency at all.
>>>
>>> If I knew how to fix it, I'd suggest alternative text.  Sadly, I
>>> don't— I think that any message which conveys all of the most
>>> important information will be too long and complicated for most people
>>> to read.
>>
>> How about this.  No message on the edit page itself.  When they save
>> the edit, they're redirected to the draft page of that article, with a
>> message at the top saying something like "This is a publicly-viewable
>> draft, and will be shown to all viewers by default after review."
>> There's no need to mention it *before* the edit, is there?
>>
>> Mentioning it after the edit shouldn't discourage contributions too
>> much.  To the contrary, if it shows up on the default page, they'll
>> probably be happier than now, knowing that someone took the time to
>> explicitly declare their edit worthy.  If it doesn't, no different to
>> them than if it was reverted under the current system.
>>
>> I'm not sure that making the edit experience exactly the same as now
>> is best.  It would confuse people who view the page from another
>> computer shortly after editing, before the edit is approved, and
>> assume that it was rejected.
>
>
> I like that a lot.  Best immediately viable option I've heard yet.
>
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