Hi.
I've committed a new feature I just wrote. Recent Changes Patrol. The commit message explains everything:
New feature: Recent Changes Patrol. All edits and new pages are now highlighted on Special:Recentchanges and Special:Newpages until someone "marks" them as "patrolled" using a special link. For new pages, this link appears at the bottom of the article if the link in Recent Changes or New Pages is followed. For all other edits, this link appears only in the diff and only if the diff link is followed from Recent Changes. (Might need to add this functionality to Watchlist too; haven't done that yet.)
Since the patch you see in the CVS commit messages is useless because of all the pointless whitespace removal, I am providing here a patch in diff -u format which ignores the whitespace changes:
http://lionking.org/~timwi/t/wikipedia/recent-changes-patrol-patch.txt
Please test this feature thoroughly. Thanks! Timwi