[Wikiquality-l] Flagged Revisions too instrusive

[P. Birken]

2007/9/24, Gregory Maxwell <gmaxwell at gmail.com>:
> On 9/24/07, P. Birken <pbirken at gmail.com> wrote:
> [snip]
> > Does a wiki manage this?
> > Then everything is fine. If not, then either the software will have to
> > be improved in this aspect (which will be one of the goals of the
> > Beta) or you shouldn't use this setting of flagged revisions. In
> > particular young wikis should simply not use it.
> [snip]
>
> and as I pointed out recently:  if the wiki can not manage it that
> would mean a great many edits are going completely without review.
> That would be a very bad thing for a highly read Wiki (like the
> primary language editions of Wikipedia), and arguably an unethical
> situation.
>
> If a popular project can't keep up with the reviewing then we need to
> solve that problem.
>
> I'm not too worried. If a popular project really couldn't keep up with
> reviewing in a timely fashion the projects would be saturated with
> vandalism. Flagging should make reviewing more efficient, so we should
> have confidence.

Well, I wholeheartedly agree with you. There's nothing more to say on
that note :-)

Cheers,

Philipp