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@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@gmail.com To: wikiquality-l@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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