[WikiEN-l] Temporal tags and outdating

[stevertigo]

Matthew Brown <morven at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.

That's an interesting compromise.

-SC