At 11:44 PM 8/28/2004 +0200, Elisabeth Bauer wrote:
Yesterday I dreamt of a "review queue".
There's a common situation: I
check an edit on RC, okay, it's not vandalism, but it smells somehow
fishy. The problem is, I have no knowledge of the subject (say, it is
biology). Currently the only, very stony solution is to leave someone I
know who knows about biology a message on his talk page to please have a
look at the article. But most people don't do that.
Instead, I could - RC patrol mode switched on in my user pref - select in
the diff view the biology-queue, and the edit would go in the review queue
of the biologists where someone checks the edit and removes it from the
queue (and takes the appropriate measures).
Dunno if that's too complicated, sounds like.
A few days back I proposed something similar to Recentchanges, in which
every article would have a link or button that would cause the article to
get placed there as a way of drawing attention to dubious content. Clicking
the link wouldn't actually change the article, it would just put a link to
it out in a prominent position for a little while. Sort of a one-click
cleanup queue. I'm hoping that if something like it were implemented it
would be used by readers who otherwise wouldn't go to the effort of
correcting errors they saw themselves, and so wouldn't otherwise contribute
to the project at all.