<html><body><div>Well, I think that FlaggedRevs could be a very, very good thing for Wikinews. Being able to remove vandalism from the public eye would be an excellent tool at Wikinews' disposal. I think that using a standard Patrolling Configuration would benefit Wikinews. I'd actually like to try this out with a dump of the Wikinews database, however. Would anyone be willing to download a recent dump, and run a copy of MediaWiki with FlaggedRevs for a while?</div>
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<BLOCKQUOTE style="PADDING-LEFT: 8px; MARGIN-LEFT: 8px; BORDER-LEFT: blue 2px solid" webmail="1">-------- Original Message --------<BR>Subject: [Wikinews-l] Flagged Revisions - What are we going to do?<BR>From: "Paul Williams" <paul@skenmy.com><BR>Date: Mon, June 23, 2008 8:46 am<BR>To: "Wikinews mailing list" <<a href="mailto:wikinews-l@lists.wikimedia">wikinews-l@lists.wikimedia</a>.org><BR><BR>-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- <BR>Hash: SHA1 <BR><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>this as constructive as possible.<BR><BR>- -- <BR>~ Paul Williams<BR><BR>-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- <BR>Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (MingW32) <BR>Comment: <A href="http://getfiregpg.org" target=_blank mce_href="http://getfiregpg.org"><a href="http://getfiregpg.org">http://getfiregpg.org</a></A> <BR><BR>iD8DBQFIX5sJ44H2oHAh6zIRAlxbAJ9YiXXThpD1vfL+uDAVO74+ZWyNwQCeJDcr <BR>cLgf/MsLMLVLZOQ9J+mOULY= <BR>=L3Br <BR>-----END PGP SIGNATURE----- <BR><BR><BR>
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