[WikiEN-l] Quality tags

Tue Sep 6 13:45:02 UTC 2005

On 06/09/05, Poor, Edmund W <Edmund.W.Poor at abc.com> wrote:

> RC patrollers might like to know WHO has reviewed a version. If Mav says
> he's checked the diff for "simple vandalism", I wouldn't give it a
> second thought. He's the champ. He used to check EVERY change (!) when
> traffic was slow enough. Now that there are often 100s of edits per
> minute, this work needs to be split up. I would be happy to put in an
> hour, from time to time, if only I knew "who else" had certified a
> certain article version as "patrolled". I'd ignore known troublemakers,
> for example. Double check newbies, and not even bother reviewing the
> work of people I come to trust.

I haven't used it, but doesn't CDVF allow this functionality to some
degree, with whitelisting &c?

> For the looming print version (or CD / DVD version), we could
> automatically choose article versions which have a suitable combination
> of Approval Tags and Problem tags. (My own preference would be
> "patrolled" and no "graffiti".) A library might insist on "accurate" and
> "balanced" with no "inaccurate" or "bias".

Note that, thanks to transclusion, "no graffiti" does not mean it
doesn't have giant images of penises stuck everwhere across it...

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