At 03:39 AM 9/1/2004 -0400, Sj wrote:
I would vastly prefer this to manually listing an article at cleanup. I rarely list articles for cleanup, though I see candidates (that I don't have time to fix) every week.
In my original proposal I suggested that the cleanup page should stay, and that this mechanism would be purely complementary to the existing system. Clicking the "summon editor attention" button would just wave a little temporary flag saying "look at me!" to editors that happened to be paying attention that day, and if one of them felt that extensive work was required they could manually list the article on cleanup to ensure it didn't get "lost" before someone got around to tidying it up.
Since cleanup is effectively supposed to be a list of entries of the form :
== Date == [[Article title]] - short comment [[Article title 2]] - short comment
it should be easy to implement a special page with the same page display. Perhaps we could
- create an "auto-cleanup" page which has a list of pages which
have had the "summon editor attention" [SAE] button clicked. 2. provide "remove from list" and "send to Cleanup" buttons next to each item there
The former button would just remove an item; the latter would insert the item at the top of the manual Cleanup page, for more complicated cases...
This is pretty similar to my recentchanges-like idea, I think we're fundamentally in agreement on the mechanism. I think that an automated removal from the list after a certain time period would be necessary to avoid the risk of spamming, though. As long as it takes a little more effort to put items onto the list than to take them off we should be fine, but I also want it to be as easy as humanly possible to put an item on the list so that we can get assistance from users who wouldn't otherwise do any editing.