2008/5/8 Magnus Manske magnusmanske@googlemail.com:
I can see how this would have the effect of soft-locking - I'd really like to know how we plan to get round it.
A flagged page that is edited by a "trusted" user (that is, one who can flag pages) is flagged by default. Given the (potentially) huge number of such users, many pages will have flags updated as a by-product of normal editing.
Excellent. How is trusted status allocated? Is it a positive decision to set the flag, or a sort of "super-autoconfirmed" status that gets doled out based on X many edits over Y time period?
One other question: if a revision is flagged in error, can the flag be removed?
Automatically generated reports of all pages with the most recent edit "unflagged", sorted by age, perhaps? This'd allow the permitted users to knock off a few each a day, keep it churning over. The sort of thing that would appeal to inveterate RC patrollers ;-)
There are a number of special pages for these purposes. There's one that lists pages with no flagged version; you can even filter by category!
Magnus, you're wonderful :-)
I think I saw a "sort-by-oldest-flag" page as well.
This would seem to be the most critical one - a new revision unflagged for a week is a lot more annoying than one unflagged for fifteen minutes, especially if the user who contributed it is wondering why it isn't showing up...
[Sorry for all the stupid questions, but those of us with nicht sprechen Deutsche can't play around with it very easily to answer them ourselves...]