Hey,

I put together a firefox toolbar to help out our editors, if anyone is interested:

http://www.wikihow.com/Use-the-wikiHow-Editor%27s-Toolbar

It's pretty basic, but gives a notification when an unpatrolled edit has been made to a featured article and gives some stats on how many total unpatrolled edits there are and how many logged in users have edited in the past 30 minutes. A new talk page message indicator also lights up when you receive a new talk page message.

So far the results have been promising, vandalism on featured articles has been short lived, and the backlog of unpatrolled edits has gone way down from consistently over 500 to less than 25 on average.

I'm not sure if other wikis could benefit from this functionality or if a more general toolbar could be made out of it, but I thought I'd pass it along.

Travis