[WikiEN-l] flagged revisions - autoreviewer even of minor edits

[Gregory Maxwell]

On Sat, May 22, 2010 at 5:14 PM, Thomas Dalton <thomas.dalton at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 22 May 2010 22:00, WereSpielChequers
> <werespielchequers at googlemail.com> wrote:
>>>> I suspect that any action by an autoconfirmed user will automatically
>>>> accept something of any actions not yet reviewed. Will those
>>>> autoconfirmed users get a warning that they might unwittingly be
>>>> accepting edits they might not have reviewed?
>>>>
>>>
>>> Yup, they do.  There's a banner at the top of the page that tells them
>>> exactly this.
>>>
>>> Rob
>>>
>>>
>> I think this could cause complications. If I'm sorting out a typo like
>> artists preforming songs or discuss throwers then I assume that if I'm
>> marking my edit as minor no-one expects me to have checked the rest of
>> the article.
>>
>> Is it going to be possible for admins to disable their autoreviewer status?
>
> I'm not sure where this has come from, but there is no problem. An
> edit by an autoreviewer will only be automatically flagged if the
> previous version was already flagged. If it's not, then they have to
> actively check a box (next to the minor edit and watch check boxes)
> saying they want to flag all the pending edits, and their own (which
> people should only check if they have reviewed all the pending edits).


Yes, exactly. I was quite careful to demonstrate this in the poster I created:

http://myrandomnode.dyndns.org:8080/~gmaxwell/flagged_protection.png