[WikiEN-l] Problem with the pending changes review screen.

[FT2]

Updated at:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Pending_changes#How_it_affects_past_revisions_and_page_history

FT2




On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 11:29 AM, Carl (CBM) <cbm.wikipedia at gmail.com>wrote:

> On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 12:25 AM, FT2 <ft2.wiki at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Once a revision is no longer current, then whether it was
> > accepted, reverted, unchecked or the like in the past is immaterial.
>
> This is not quite true.  If a revision is marked as reviewed, and a
> reviewer later reverts the article back to that revision, the revert
> will automatically be marked as reviewed. For this reason, it's
> important not to mark any revision with vandalism as 'reviewed', even
> if you immediately fix the vandalism afterwards.
>
> I made an example of this at [[Wikipedia:Pending
> changes/Testing/CBM]]. I used an alternate account CBM2 to make bad
> edits, and used my admin account CBM to review them and remove the bad
> ones.  I intentionally made a mistake at timestamp 3:06 by accepting a
> revision with vandalism and then undoing the vandalism separately.
>
> But later, I looked at this diff
>
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia%3APending_changes%2FTesting%2FCBM&action=historysubmit&diff=368307529&oldid=368306510
>
> and clicked "undo" because it looked safe.
>
> Looking at that diff, wouldn't you do the same thing? Because the
> vandalism was present in both of the versions being compared, the diff
> didn't show it. But because the original revision was marked as
> reviewed, the new version was also marked as reviewed.
>
> The moral is you should try not to accept edits with vandalism in
> them, under the assumption that any version you review might later
> become the live version.
>
> - Carl
>
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