On Sun, Jun 27, 2010 at 2:48 PM, Rob Lanphier robla@wikimedia.org wrote:
For example, let's say that there are three pending revisions in the queue. That means there is the latest accepted revision (we'll call "A1"), and three pending revisions ("P1", "P2", and "P3"). P3 is the latest pending revision, while P1 and P2 are intermediate pending revisions.
The specification says that when viewing the diff between A1 and P3, the "reject" button is enabled. A more conservative school of thought says that the "reject" button shouldn't be enabled, because its possible that P1 was a valid revision that was vandalized by P2, and the only way to tell is to look at the revision history. However, this should be reasonably rare, and the diff remains in the edit history to be rescued, and can be reapplied if need be. A competing problem is that disabling the "reject" button will result in the same confusion we're already seeing today.
Why don't you have the "reject" button (whatever it's called) show you each diff individually, so you get the chance to accept or reject them one by one? (Disclaimer: I haven't really looked at Pending Changes at all, so I might be talking nonsense.)