[WikiEN-l] So, what is the deal with flagged revisions?

[Carcharoth]

On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 2:17 PM, Andrew Gray<andrew.gray at dunelm.org.uk> wrote:
> 2009/8/27 Carcharoth <carcharothwp at googlemail.com>:
>
>> If the regulars editing have some auto-flagging to approve their own
>> edits, surely they risk approving someone else's changes that were
>> made in between the time they loaded and read the page, and clicked
>> "edit this page"? To avoid this, you would need a warning saying "you
>> are approving other revisions, not just the one you are saving".
>
> Oooh, this is an *interesting* problem, especially with section
> editing. Auto-flagging of own revisions seems to be something you can
> turn on or off, at least for the two semi-protected states:

Surely de-wiki would have encountered and solved it if it was a problem?

> "REVIEWERS: Can edit; a new edit is visible immediately if the
> previous version is already confirmed or when the option "confirm this
> revision" is selected; otherwise left unconfirmed"
>
> I'm guessing this is an opt-in system, and we'll have to encourage
> people only to use it on low-traffic pages. Hmm.

Sounds like it. Unless we are breaking new ground to what de-wiki did.

Carcharoth