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List:       wikien-l
Subject:    Re: [WikiEN-l] Re: [Foundation-l] Most read US newpaper blasts
From:       Delirium <delirium () hackish ! org>
Date:       2005-11-30 19:16:33
Message-ID: 438DFA91.1080007 () hackish ! org
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J.F. de Wolff wrote:

> Fred is suggesting a para-wiki where arcticles are fact-checked before 
> they go live. I would like to propose that as soon as an article 
> reaches featured article status, it is semi-protected. Only registered 
> users (or even registered users with a good track record) can edit 
> those pages. Changes can be proposed on talk by anons and then be 
> effectuated by registered users. This will put an editing funnel on 
> our most prized content.

I agree that the most obvious place to start is by in a sense protecting 
the articles that are deemed to be pretty good and therefore less in 
need of edits---these are the ones where the ratio of destructive to 
constructive edits tends to be higher.  I would prefer a system that 
fell short of *actually* protecting the pages by limiting edits to a 
certain group of people, though.  If the issue is whether people will 
see vandalism before it's reverted, this can be accomplished through the 
proposed rating system in a number of ways.  For example, articles that 
have a version rated above some threshold may be default display that 
version to non-logged-in users, rather than more recent versions.  If 
changes are made that do indeed improve the article, there would be a 
lag until the new version is recognized as also high-quality and 
displayed; if they were destructive changes, the new version would not 
get displayed in the first place.

There are a number of issues for how to work this out, both in terms of 
community and logistics, but I do think a way to go is to introduce a 
display lag of some sort on articles deemed "already very good", but 
*without* actually restricting.edits---instead merely delaying their 
general visibility.

-Mark

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