Certainly, MW could try to carry over all the previous template/image IDs specified from the last stable revision and then re-use those to mark the new version after editing as stable. This still has two problems:
1) New templates added in the edit would not have a specified ID, same for images 2) Pages would have templates that get continuously out of date as people just review on edit like this.
I suppose to avoid those, you could not only show the diff to help them see the changes, but show a preview of the changes. This would require some sort of "force preview" thing, which would make the "preview before edit" user option seem kind of silly. Also, it wouldn't be far off from justing letting people save and then click the diff to review. I don't want people to get too hung up reviewing things on every minor edit they make. Even if a page gets 10 edits/day, it only takes1 person every 1-2 days to keep it up to date (unless it is documenting a current event with much info coming in, in which case more people would be editing, so more would likely review).
-Aaron Schulz
From: "P. Birken" pbirken@gmail.com Reply-To: Wikimedia Quality Discussions wikiquality-l@lists.wikimedia.org To: "Wikimedia Quality Discussions" wikiquality-l@lists.wikimedia.org Subject: Re: [Wikiquality-l] Issues with FlaggedRevs Date: Tue, 14 Aug 2007 10:54:19 +0200
2007/8/14, Aaron Schulz jschulz_4587@msn.com:
- This is complicated. You cannot review revision without knowing the
templates/images used in it, which even with the page in edit mode and a diff is not enough. Just parsing it and pulling it from there can review vandalism to templates/images. Doesn't seem that bad to have to review
after
editing, since when you edit a page, it refreshes back to the page,
which
has the tag and diff link to the last reviewed version. This is for the default UI...indeed the other one is more annoying about this. Perhaps
the
simply UI should be for anons only?
Mhmh, that doesn't sound good. However, I do not get the technical problem: instead of requiring the user to save the page and then review the change manually, shouldn't it be possible to simply perform a specific review automatically after saving the page?
Regarding the templates: the version of templates that is shown when editing is hardwired to the version I review, right? If that is so, then assuming that the editor has looked at the templates and therefore performing the review automatically seems reasonable.
Bye,
Philipp
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