[WikiEN-l] Temporal tags and outdating

[Matthew Brown]

On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 6:39 PM, 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 The usual solution is to use templates to flag up outdated material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 that specific outdated language (and its outdated reference) need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.
>

Wikis are all about eventualistic processes.  It's kind of the point.

That said, automatic notification of people who care that a statement has
become stale is useful.  Perhaps this could set a special flag in
watchlists?

I'm against the idea of automatically updating content for the reason that
it's assuming the prediction in the article about a future event is true and
actually happened as predicted.

-Matt