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

[James Alexander]

On Sat, May 22, 2010 at 5:40 PM, Thomas Dalton <thomas.dalton at gmail.com>wrote:

> On 22 May 2010 22:32, Emily Monroe <bluecaliocean at me.com> wrote:
> > Are you guys talking about the right to not have your page patrolled
> > by New Page Patrol? Because, even though I probably have it all wrong,
> > I don't think I've seen the word "autoreviewer" tossed about in any
> > other context. I was under the impression that autoreviewer status was
> > something where you can either nominate yourself or another person,
> > after said nominee has written an unusual high amount of policy-
> > complying articles in a row, therefore clogging up New Page Patrol--it
> > doesn't come to you automatically.
>
> No, we're talking about having your edits automatically flagged as
> checked under the flaggedrevs extension. This page seems to confirm I
> am using the terminology correctly:
>
> http://flaggedrevs.labs.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:ListGroupRights
>
>
I think you have the terminology right but that is something we probably
want to change if we can.. if we keep using "autoreviewer" as a statement
there it is going to confuse a lot of people on En who have seen autoreview
as a very different thing for a while now.


James Alexander
james.alexander at rochester.edu
jamesofur at gmail.com