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August 24, 2006
Wiki moderation
Wiki moderation: This CNET article takes awhile to get to the point, but the German Wikipedia will soon test a moderation system, where no edits are pushed live until a trusted editor approves. I see no evidence that Wales yet acknowledges that topics with wide disagreement may work better in decentralized weblogs than centralized wikis ("Wikis converge, blogs diverge")... Wikipedia has become a prize for evangelists, and the person with the most time on his hands gets to push others down the memory hole. Realizing that the blurb "anyone can make any edit, any time!" leads to abuse and contention is a positive step, but I'm not sure why it took so long to say it. (Sidenote: that concept of a "moderated" social group, where a person gradually invests and partakes in an online community, has worked well for Usenet and mailing lists, but it's apparently not yet a frequent topic of discussion for wikis.)
Posted by JohnDowdell at August 24, 2006 07:52 AM
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