[WikiEN-l] Simple interface tweak?

Tue Dec 13 18:58:41 UTC 2005

And, it's an interesting question to me... how many watchers DO
articles generally have anyhow? ARE there articles with 600 watchers?
60? Am I diligently watching the same things as 100 others or are we
distiburing our observation more evenly over the content of the site?

-andrea

On 12/13/05, Mark Gallagher <m.g.gallagher at student.canberra.edu.au> wrote:
>
> G'day Mark,
>
> > On 12/13/05, Carbonite <carbonite.wp at gmail.com> wrote:
> ["X users watchlisted this article" feature]
> >>One of the drawbacks is that vandals would be able to target articles that
> >>have zero users watching them.
> >
> > That's not true.  An article with zero watchers still shows up on
> > Recent Changes, where anyone doing RC patrol can see what's happening.
>
> How often do you check your watchlist and find that something survived
> through RC patrol?  How often do you RC patrol and find yourself
> despairing as too many edits scroll past for you to check out everything?
>
> If a vandal knows an article isn't being watched, he'd be quite correct
> to assume his vandalism would stay on Wikipedia longer than if he'd
> taken an article watchlisted by 600 people.  RC patrol is a worn-out net
> with many holes in it: sometimes it catches enough, sometimes it doesn't.
>
>
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