We are getting somewhere else than I wanted... I didn't want to discuss what should be reverted on sight or not. Problem is that right now lot of vandal-fighters see certain amount of dubious edits they skip because they can't verify if they are correct or not, which are then ignored and get lost in editing history. That's a fact. This problem could be easily solved if these specific edits could be highlighted somehow so that they would get attention of people who understand the topic well enough to check if they are OK. But there is no such a system / mechanism that would allow us to do that. I think this is worth of implementing somehow because it could significantly improve the reliability of encyclopedia content. There is a lot of vandalism that remains unnoticed even for months
On Fri, Sep 27, 2013 at 5:51 AM, Jay Ashworth <j...@baylink.com> wrote: > ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "MZMcBride" <z...@mzmcbride.com> > >> Much of the content on Wikipedia and other Wikimedia wikis comes from >> non-vested contributors. That is, many, many helpful additions and >> corrections come from people who will make only a few edits in their >> lifetime. While I can't disagree with the suggestion that reverting is >> easier than fact-checking, I very much doubt that assuming bad faith >> helps build a better project or a better community. And this is to say >> nothing of the fact that the seemingly simple act of providing a reference is >> often painful and unintuitive, particularly in established articles >> that employ complicated markup (infoboxes, citation templates, and ref >> tags). > > My first 2 edits at TV Tropes had this property: not only were they reverted, > they were both reverted with snotty comments about procedure, and *the second > one was me doing what the first one had yelled at me for not doing*. And I > got yelled at the second time for following instructions. > > I gave up. It's fun to read, but not worth my time to contribute to. > > I concur with MZM: We don't want to become that. > > Cheers, > -- jra > -- > Jay R. Ashworth Baylink > j...@baylink.com > Designer The Things I Think RFC 2100 > Ashworth & Associates http://baylink.pitas.com 2000 Land Rover DII > St Petersburg FL USA #natog +1 727 647 1274 > > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
