David Goodman wrote:
If enWikipedia has only 4,000 active editors, and we
don't do better
at this than, we are going to keep up with only a very few articles.
The plan will work , though, for the most watched articles,
fortunately where they are needed, because that's the ones where
people people catch errors now. In other words, as a substitute for
semi-protection for most semi'd pages, not flagging a significant
number of pages addition to them. It won't do a thing to reduce the
gross vandalism that now gets uncaught for hours. It might provide a
clearer focus on the ones that get caught in a few minutes, and keep
the vandalism off them for those few minutes. But that's all that can
be expected of it
Of course, if we are talking about the work that will get done, it is
most important to answer the question "should this work be getting
done?" And that seems a clear "Yes". We don't ever get the "magic
bullet" technical solution that ensures that everything gets done that
should be. That is not how the system works, it's the asymptote.
Charles