'flagged revisions' Tag

• WikiConference New York: An Open Unconference

  September 7, 2009

  A few months ago, I had the pleasure of presenting at the first (hopefully annual) WikiConference New York, sponsored by the Wikimedia New York City chapter with assistance from Free Culture @ NYU and the Information Law Institute at NYU’s law school. I know that I am atrociously late in writing this post, but I’m [...]

  posted in Conference Notes, Wikis by R. Stuart Geiger

• Wikimania 2008: State of the Mediawiki

  July 20, 2008

  State of the Mediawiki, a presentation give at Wikimania by some developers of Mediawiki and maintainers of the Wikimedia installation of it

  posted in Conference Notes by R. Stuart Geiger

• Wikimania 2008: Flagged Revisions with Philipp Birken

  July 20, 2008

  From “Flagged Revisions,” a presentation at Wikimania 2008 by Philip Birken. In my opinion, flagged revisions realize the concept of stable versions without making the article actually stable.  It is not a system of voting to approve new revisions – a new revision is approved when only one autoconfirmed user says it is vandalism-free.  Yes, [...]

  posted in Conference Notes by R. Stuart Geiger