Lila Tretikov wrote:
We seem to really gravitate towards complexity on these
things. How can we
make them simple, addressing a very specific need. We can complicate
later.
Our wikis range in size from a few hundred revisions to hundreds of
millions of revisions (and growing!). Building a scalable system is hard
work and the Wikimedia Foundation has been pretty aggressive in focusing
primarily on large wikis (Commons and the English Wikipedia), so perhaps
most technical discussions tend to shift to the higher gears as a result.
1. As an editor I'd like to flag a revision as
reviewed/verified by me
from the revision screen or list.
2. As an editor I want to see which revisions were verified/had second
opinion by other editors.
Okay, so... we already have this feature built in to MediaWiki core (it's
documented at <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Patrolled_edit>) and
we did the whole "try to flag revisions as reviewed" bit in 2008 and 2009
with a MediaWiki extension called FlaggedRevisions (re-branded as "Pending
Changes" for added confusion).
I'm not sure what you're bringing to the table here. We've already made
substantial investments in developing revision review technology that
didn't work well as it was seemingly incompatible with the wiki model.
MZMcBride