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:::The usual "rebuttal" to this objection is that most trolls are either too inexperienced to know about this or are too stupid to think of this. Besides, it;s restricted to logged in users. Also, a few recent changes lurkers I know ''never'' "patrol" edits for just that very reason. It is, though, helpful in checking content for accuracy, or typos. Typos would be a big thing in projects like the mass creation of pages for every known wiki which Mark's been doing lately. Those edits are rerely more than 2 minutes apart and at one point I saw recent changes completely filled with it. From personal experience I know that you can get going at a pretty good pace on projects like this, so typos (sometimes major) are bound to happen, and with 3 or 4 people going behinf you on recent changes as long as they're not doing redundant work, nobody has to spend much time making sure that the project is ''truly'' complete when you're finished. —[[Sean Fennel|<span style="font-family: Kristen ITC, Times New Roman;">User:Sean Fennel</span>]][[User talk:Sean Fennel|<span style="font-family: Kristen ITC, Times New Roman;">@</span>]] 12:59, 8 Mar 2006 (EST) | :::The usual "rebuttal" to this objection is that most trolls are either too inexperienced to know about this or are too stupid to think of this. Besides, it;s restricted to logged in users. Also, a few recent changes lurkers I know ''never'' "patrol" edits for just that very reason. It is, though, helpful in checking content for accuracy, or typos. Typos would be a big thing in projects like the mass creation of pages for every known wiki which Mark's been doing lately. Those edits are rerely more than 2 minutes apart and at one point I saw recent changes completely filled with it. From personal experience I know that you can get going at a pretty good pace on projects like this, so typos (sometimes major) are bound to happen, and with 3 or 4 people going behinf you on recent changes as long as they're not doing redundant work, nobody has to spend much time making sure that the project is ''truly'' complete when you're finished. —[[Sean Fennel|<span style="font-family: Kristen ITC, Times New Roman;">User:Sean Fennel</span>]][[User talk:Sean Fennel|<span style="font-family: Kristen ITC, Times New Roman;">@</span>]] 12:59, 8 Mar 2006 (EST) | ||
:: Ah, excellent! This means that it's '''more''' important to patrol for the usernames we recognize. If any of Mark's edits have been patrolled, I can be sure someone has checked for typos, whereas, if an IP or someone I don't know has made an edit, the patrolling doesn't necessarily tell me that's a good edit. Since we hope those edits will be few, it's not such a bad thing to have these checked and double-checked, but we really want to avoid having to duplicate the typos-checks on the work of the people that we do trust! I like it! Feel free to re-factor this page to reflect our new understanding of that Recent Changes Patrol is all about. :-) [[TedErnst]] | <small>[[User talk:TedErnst|talk]]</small> 13:15, 8 Mar 2006 (EST) | |||
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