[Wikipedia-l] On 10 minutes delay, banning, and patrolling.

Fri Jan 7 21:05:36 UTC 2005

In message <20050107174438.43885.qmail at web14004.mail.yahoo.com>, 
Christopher Mahan <chris_mahan at yahoo.com> writes
>
>On vandalism: I think that there should be a
>Recent unpatrolled anon changes  (RUAC) link for logged in users
>under the Recent Changes on the menu. Then it's a lot easier (and
>easier on the db) to get the last x unpatrolled items.
>
>Also, when clicking the "this page has been patrolled", one should be
>returned immediately to the recent changes, or RUAC.
>
>Finally, articles that currently have unpatrolled anon edits when
>viewed by an logged in user should have something to indicate that in
>the article display.

I don't personally find the unpatrolled changes facility to be much use 
because I very rarely go to Recent Changes -- my base for keeping an eye 
on Wikipedia is my watchlist. What I'd find really useful would be a 
sort of "super watchlist", of edits to articles I'm interested in by 
anonymous users -- some of the edits will be OK, but for example on 
articles about football clubs there's a high likelihood that anon edits 
will be vandalism by supporters of other clubs! In general I'd like to 
be able to check out edits by anons quicker than edits by registered 
users.

--Arwel ([[en:User:Arwel Parry]])

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Arwel Parry
http://www.cartref.demon.co.uk/