--- "Gregory Maxwell" gmaxwell@gmail.com wrote:
I think it is widely believed that mark as patrol failed for most projects because it was only a marker that didn't actually do anything important so nothing encourages people to keep up with it. The flagging system solves that issue by influencing the default page view for the public... something most Wikipedians will care a lot about.
Which is precisely why I think it is unwise to force this feature onto the communities in this way. Flagging is a feature (although a superflous one, as we already have enough ways to flag an article), but not showing the most current version to anonymous readers is a policy change.
I guess there are some articles, where vandalism is a huge problem and it might be alleviated with flagged revisions. But an easier and less intrusive way would be to just disable anonymous editing on these pages. And for 99% of all articles vandalism is occasional and easily dealt with.
Ulrich