[Wikiquality-l] default views

[Luca de Alfaro]

Users may do most of the editing in terms of number of edits, but original
information (even is misformatted) comes, right now, predominantly from
anonymous users.  I believe that they will be disincentivated to edit, if
their edits won't be reflected immediately, and I think the process that has
made the Wikipedia so rich risks an abrupt slowing.

Luca

On Oct 8, 2007 8:33 PM, Aaron Schulz <jschulz_4587 at msn.com> wrote:

>  I don't think that is a good idea. It removes much of the editing
> incentive of getting an account and makes editing more tiresome for those
> who edit the most (users).
>
> -Aaron Schulz
>
> > Date: Mon, 8 Oct 2007 18:16:03 -0700
> > From: jleybov at gmail.com
> > To: wikiquality-l at lists.wikimedia.org
> > Subject: [Wikiquality-l] default views
>
> >
> > All,
> >
> > The proposed behavior of the flagged revision extension is to show the
> > last reviewed version only to anonymous users. I submit that this is
> > should be default behavior for ALL users (subject to personalization
> > settings override, I guess). The question here is not just of
> > vandalism control, but also of making Wikipedia's content creation
> > process more deliberative. The power to command an article's content
> > by submitting the last edit is an incentive not only for vandalism,
> > but also the sort of uncivil version contention that has long been
> > damaging the community's social fabric. In making the last reviewed
> > version of an article the default view for practically ALL users, we
> > remove the incentive for not just vandalism, but all sorts of unsocial
> > behavior.
> >
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