[WikiEN-l] Temporal tags and outdating

[Carcharoth]

On Wed, May 19, 2010 at 2:39 AM, stevertigo <stvrtg at gmail.com> wrote:
> Carcharoth <carcharothwp at googlemail.com> wrote:
>> The usual solution is to use templates to flag up outdated material
>> for editors to review and check things did happen, and to issue the
>> needed corrections and updates.
>
> Exactly. Its quaint. Tagging specific forecasts as temporal takes what
> is a lazy eventualistic, let-someone-else-do-it process and signals
> that specific outdated language (and its outdated reference) need
> updating. A "switchbot" could then perhaps message the editor who
> wrote the section/tag. Context-based signalling.

The "as of" system (when I last looked) did put articles in a category
automatically. Your idea of signalling the original editor is an
interesting one, but editors come and go, and the whole wiki-model
relies on people updating the work of others, so we need to make sure
that process always works.

Carcharoth