[Wikiquality-l] Flagged Revisions too instrusive

[Chad]

Let's assume for a minute that this feature gets deployed on the projects.
Large projects get it and small ones don't, for the purposes of this
analogy.

Given that vandalism wouldn't appear to the majority of viewers of the site
(anons), wouldn't this therefore mean vandalism in and of itself would go
down? Vandalism is committed (as far as I know) to get the shock value of
having someone read a wrong page. However, on the wikis that do not have
this feature, would it make vandalism go up? Given the vandals would find
out which have it and which don't (an easily obtainable piece of
information), would they potentially take a higher effort on those wikis
that don't have it, since they know it is more likely to not get reviewed?
That being said, we have very few dedicated vandals. The majority of vandals
are drive-bys who (when seeing their vandalism doesn't work on the English
Wikipedia) would give up, I think.

-Chad H.

On 9/24/07, ulim <ulim at mayring.de> wrote:
>
> --- "P. Birken" <pbirken at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > No, this is indeed a valid concern. A feature that allows to unflag an
> > article is not included. Unflagging sort of happens by creating a new
> > version and flagging that one instead. So, once an article has been
> > flagged, it is "in the system". However, initially no article is
> > flagged.
>
> Leaving aside the sighted flag for a moment, what about the quality
> version
> flag? Suppose it is given erroneously, because someone made a mistake in
> checking the sources for the article - this can happen easily. In that
> case
> there should be a way to unflag the article, no?
>
> Ulrich
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