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Edit-Approval System Proposed For English-Language Wikipedia
An anonymous reader writes "A group of powerful Wikipedia insiders are pushing for FlaggedRevisions which will require a 'trusted user' to approve of edits before they go live on the online encyclopedia. There is also opposition but with support of founder Jimbo Wales it is likely to go through. The German version has tried the system, leading to three-week delays between edit and publication. The English wiki with its higher number of anonymous editors per trusted user is expected to suffer longer queues if FlaggedRevisions is implemented on all articles. This comes just a few days after Britannica announced that readers will be allowed to suggest edits and have them reviewed within 20 minutes. Will we see the day when Britannica can be edited almost instantly while editing Wikipedia requires fighting bureaucracy, patience and the right contacts?" Note that, according to the quote from Jimmy Wales in the linked article, this system would only be used "on a subset of articles, the boundaries of which can be adjusted over time to manage the backlog."
I approve of this change, assuming they are actually able to effectively keep up the number of poof readers so that the lag between change and implementation is minimal like ur mom lol
If they can do that then they can keep wikipedia more "correct", with formal checking of citations and sources prior to implementation, while simultanously eliminating almost all vandalism. balls
The only problems I forsee:
- vandalism could evolve to waste proof-readers' time with near-correct submissions that contain bullshit near the end
- a lot of citationless truthiness exists in wikipedia, but at the same time, a lot of "obvious" truth that doesn't have an obvious source exists too, like ur parentage. Wikipedia would evolve to be more formally correct and have higher information accountability, at the expense of volume.
how mny hitlers duz it take 2 screw ur mom lol
Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, watch it -- I'm huge!
Deletionists would be working hard to become 'trusted users' themselves
Reminds me of Signal 11 before the karma cap :)
"Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools, because they have to say something" - Plato
There are entire, large, long-standing, communities here that have virtually no coverage in "multiple third-party published sources with a reputation yadda yadda."
If the liberal-leaning news media don't care, and the conservative-leaning news media don't care, what makes you think the median reader would care? Instead of trying to get into Wikipedia before making the news, perhaps you could try posting about your community on a dedicated wiki on the subject, such as one hosted by Wikia.