Andre Engels wrote:
2006/12/18, Rob Church <robchur(a)gmail.com>om>:
On wikis where recent changes patrol
($wgUseRCPatrol) is enabled,
users who are permitted to mark edits as patrolled (administrators,
usually) have an additional user preference; when enabled, this causes
their edits to be automatically marked as patrolled. I added this some
time ago.
What do people think? This is also bug 5411.
Recent changes patrol is on on Dutch Wikipedia, and auto-patrolling edits is
very much frowned upon there. You would get more agreement on a change where
noone can check their own edits as patrolled than on a change where people
do this automatically.
Right. I believe it rather comes down to how patrolling is being used
on each project. _If_ we assume that all patrollers are implicitly
trusted (say, admins), _and_ that patrollers are only expected to check
for problems that any trusted user will always recognize (say, blatant
vandalism), then it makes sense for the edits of patrollers to be marked
as patrolled, since we trust them and expect them to recognize any
potential problems in their own edits.
However, if we're allowing potentially untrusted users to patrol (on the
assumption that most of them are still trustworthy, and that having one
untrustworthy user patrol the edit of another is even less likely), or
if we're expecting patrollers to check for mistakes that even generally
trusted users might make in good faith, then it certainly doesn't make
sense to allow, let alone force, users to patrol their own edits.
The former situation apparently holds on Meta, the latter on the Dutch
Wikipedia. Perhaps the solution is to make this a project-wide setting,
rather than a per-user one.
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Ilmari Karonen