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

Emily Monroe bluecaliocean at me.com
Sat May 22 21:53:57 UTC 2010


> 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.

Ya know, I was just thinking that, but I needed more time to think  
about the whole interaction. Names are, after all, a big part of  
making stuff usable to most humans.

Emily

On May 22, 2010, at 4:44 PM, James Alexander wrote:

> 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
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