If you haven't caught it— my strongly held and long standing recommendation is that we make >the process as invisible as possible: By overloading the cookie that is set when a user (inc. >anons) edits we can switch these people over to the draft-by-default view, either in a full-on all >articles sausage making mode like a logged in user, or just for the articles that they've edited.
Are you suggesting that the draft (that is, the unvetted) version of a protected article be displayed by default to anonymous editors? Or have I misunderstood you?
AGK