Re: [Foundation-l] [Wikitech-l] flagged revisions

2009-07-16 Thread private musings
Hi all, It's been almost a month since the last post in this 'flagged revisions' thread (sincere apologies if I've failed to find discussion which has no doubt been occurring on lists and wikis everywhere!) - I wanted to ask for an update from the folk at the coalface working on getting flagged re

Re: [Foundation-l] [Wikitech-l] flagged revisions

2009-06-22 Thread Ziko van Dijk
> > > And thus, flaggedrevs would not provide nearly any added > disincentive for vandals, but would add workload for the > good faith editors, and slow down content production. > > > Jussi-Ville Heiskanen > > This is not likely to happen. Our experiences on de.WP show that the change in the work p

Re: [Foundation-l] [Wikitech-l] flagged revisions

2009-06-22 Thread Yaroslav M. Blanter
> What I *am* saying - and I suspect none of my countrymen > would dispute me in this - is that in Finland vandals are > vastly overrun by people of good faith editing and cleaning > after the vandals. So much so that the vandals effect is > easily negligible. Negligible over the long term, but

Re: [Foundation-l] [Wikitech-l] flagged revisions

2009-06-21 Thread Jussi-Ville Heiskanen
Yaroslav M. Blanter wrote: >> But on the other end of the spectrum, on projects like the one >> I am active on (the Finnish Wikipedia)... >> >> Disruptive behaviour is not wired into our genes or our >> culture, but quietly co?perative behaviour has been. Our >> wikipedia is a paradise in compariso

Re: [Foundation-l] [Wikitech-l] flagged revisions

2009-06-21 Thread Yaroslav M. Blanter
> But on the other end of the spectrum, on projects like the one > I am active on (the Finnish Wikipedia)... > > Disruptive behaviour is not wired into our genes or our > culture, but quietly co?perative behaviour has been. Our > wikipedia is a paradise in comparison to many. For this > reason pers

Re: [Foundation-l] [Wikitech-l] flagged revisions

2009-06-20 Thread Jussi-Ville Heiskanen
Samuel Klein wrote: > I agree this is important, to the projects and to the progress of flagged > revs as a concept (which is still one step of a long journey). It is worth > a quick thread on f-l for that reason if not for general interest. > > I was so taken aback by the conceit that the adop

Re: [Foundation-l] [Wikitech-l] flagged revisions

2009-06-19 Thread Samuel Klein
I agree this is important, to the projects and to the progress of flagged revs as a concept (which is still one step of a long journey). It is worth a quick thread on f-l for that reason if not for general interest. Sj samuel klein. s...@laptop.org. +1 617 529 4266 On Jun 19, 2009 6:47 PM, "p

Re: [Foundation-l] [Wikitech-l] flagged revisions

2009-06-19 Thread private musings
Hi all, It's been 10 days since the last note on flagged revisions, which is sufficiently important to warrant a follow up at this point in my view. I'll try and focus the questions a bit in order not to pester, but with the intention of helping things forward; see https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/sh