[WikiEN-l] Re: Recent changes patrol

Mon Aug 9 09:54:34 UTC 2004

> From: Daniel Mayer <maveric149 at yahoo.com>
>

> Neat! But who gets to mark an edit as "patrolled"? Letting an anon or 
> new user
> do that would tend to defeat the purpose. Also, depending on a single 
> person's
> judgment may be problematic as well. Ideally an article would need to 
> be viewed
> by 3 non-newbies/anons to get the "patrolled" tag.

I don't think so. It's not as if marked articles would never be looked 
at. The function of the feature, as I see it, is not to be technical 
armor against bad behavior and bad faith, but to reduce Wikistress by 
insuring that many eyes _do not_ look at new articles if many eyes are 
not needed.

I think it's a very good idea. And it doesn't need to work perfectly in 
order for it to work.

I don't think it will help dramatically, but I think it will help 
noticeably.

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