[Wikipedia-l] Re: Wikipedia RC is broken

[phil hunt]

On Sat, 28 Aug 2004 16:46:10 +0200, Tomasz Wegrzanowski <taw at users.sf.net> wrote:
>
>Imagine a wiki without a Recent Changes page - the error can stay in it for
>days or even weeks before it gets corrected. Such a wiki wouldn't work well.
>But that's almost the situation in Wikipedia today - because the Recent Changes
>is so huge, very few people will check all articles, and as the topics of articles
>become more specialized, chances that non-trivial error will be spotted in RC
>are getting lower and lower.

That's a legitimate concern. Perhaps we could have per-category 
Recent Changes pages.

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