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<div style="16px" text-align="left"><br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left"><br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left"><br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left">11 Sep 2019, 20:47 by osm@imagico.de:<br></div><blockquote class="tutanota_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid #93A3B8; padding-left: 10px; margin-left: 5px;"><div style="16px" text-align="left">if the number of edits <br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left">and the time spent on these by those willing and able to diligently <br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left">pursue this path outnumbered edits of those who pursue other goals by a <br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left">fair margin. This is not achievable i think.<br></div></blockquote><div style="16px" text-align="left">It is not so bad.<br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left"><br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left">Note that reverting is significantly<br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left">less time confusing than writing things.<br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left"><br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left">More than once I needed less than minute<br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left">to spot and remove "hereby I redefine tag xyz"</div><div style="16px" text-align="left">edit that needed far more time to write.</div><div style="16px" text-align="left"><br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left">it is hard to say how far away we are from<br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left">this goal, especially for me, as part of wiki that <br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left">I edit or at least monitor seem acceptable to me<br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left">because I already removed what I considered<br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left">as untrue/misguided/unwanted.</div><blockquote class="tutanota_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid #93A3B8; padding-left: 10px; margin-left: 5px;"><div style="16px" text-align="left">And even if that worked it would still not produce the compact, well <br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left">condensed kind of documentation Richard has in mind of course.<br></div></blockquote><div style="16px" text-align="left">Here I agree.</div><blockquote class="tutanota_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid #93A3B8; padding-left: 10px; margin-left: 5px;"><div style="16px" text-align="left">Wikipedia has been experimenting with a system of this kind imposed on <br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left">top of the Mediawiki framework - but practically this is AFAIK used for <br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left">technocratic oversight to avoid vandalism and other clearly malicious <br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left">changes but not for editorial review regarding content quality:<br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left"><br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Reviewing_pending_changes<br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left"><br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left">I have not actually tried the technical implementation of this but given <br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left">how it is used i doubt it would be suitable for the kind of content <br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left">centered editorial review we are talking about here.<br></div></blockquote><div style="16px" text-align="left">given that only choices are <br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left">- accept<br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left">- revert<br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left"><br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left">it is suitable only for combating<br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left">blatant vandalism.<br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left"><br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left">Some way to discuss changes<br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left">would be needed to have useful<br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left">reviews before edit.<br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left"><br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left">GitHub (or Gitlab or other equivalent)<br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left">would be better match for such requirements.</div> </body>
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