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<br>So, I think it's time to bring this up. I'm doing it on the mailing<br>list because it encourages a more detailed response than on-wiki, and<br>those who really care will be able to respond. For those who worry<br>
that i'm taking Wiki issues off-wiki, please don't, this is a<br>discussion phase, and I fully intend to publicise any changes on-wiki<br>where we will obtain consensus before moving onwards.<br><br>I think that Flagged Revisions could potentially be a good thing for<br>
Wikinews. It would give us both greater control and greater<br>credibility in the eyes of our readers. Not only can everyone edit,<br>but there is a form of "checking" beforehand - that leaves us open to<br>anyone's contributions whilst stil being able to easily maintain a<br>
credible news source that conforms to all our guidelines.<br><br>I believe that the "Patrolling" configuration will work well for us.<br>Here's the definition, verbatim, from the announcement by Erik:<br><br>
In the Patrolling Configuration, any user who has been registered for<br>more than 21 days and has made at least 150 edits will be<br>automatically given the permission to patrol changes for vandalism.<br>Only changes made by users who are not permitted to patrol changes<br>
need to be patrolled.<br><br>In addition, sysops will be given the permission to flag versions of<br>"featured articles" in accordance with existing nomination processes.<br>(In other words, this gives you the ability to identify specific<br>
_versions_ of an article as "featured", rather than the article as a<br>whole.) Finally, sysops will be permitted to define on a per-page<br>basis that changes need to be patrolled before being visible to<br>unregistered readers. This is an alternative to semi-protection; it<br>
doesn't make sense to use both on a given page.<br><br>The use of these features is subject to policies that your wiki<br>community will need to develop. They should be used carefully until<br>such a policy is in place.<br>
This means that we can stabilise articles on-publish (by marking them<br>as "patrol required"), whilst still allowing anyone to make changes.<br><br>Thoughts? Suggestions? Custom configurations? Please reply. Let's keep<br>
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