On Wed, May 19, 2010 at 2:39 AM, stevertigo <[email protected]> wrote: > Carcharoth <[email protected]> wrote: >> The usual solution is to use templates to flag up outdated material >> for editors to review and check things did happen, and to issue the >> needed corrections and updates. > > Exactly. Its quaint. Tagging specific forecasts as temporal takes what > is a lazy eventualistic, let-someone-else-do-it process and signals > that specific outdated language (and its outdated reference) need > updating. A "switchbot" could then perhaps message the editor who > wrote the section/tag. Context-based signalling.
The "as of" system (when I last looked) did put articles in a category automatically. Your idea of signalling the original editor is an interesting one, but editors come and go, and the whole wiki-model relies on people updating the work of others, so we need to make sure that process always works. Carcharoth _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
