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

[David Goodman]

There was no general consensus for what people though they were voting
for, nor is there any sure way to predict what they will now say,
since a great many of the practical details have only been clarified
in the last few days upon seeing the implementation.

Now that we actually have a proposal, it needs to be approved

On Sat, May 22, 2010 at 9:13 PM, Rob Lanphier <robla at robla.net> wrote:
> On Sat, May 22, 2010 at 2:20 PM, James Alexander <jamesofur at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> Ok if that's the case it makes me a bit less worried on that front though I
>> am still confused. You say "autoreviewer" but a lot of others are using
>> "autoconfirmed" which is obviously very different and much broader. Is this
>> for those with a separate autoreview flag or are all autoconfirmed users
>> getting this ability?
>>
>
> Here's what we're currently on track to implement:
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Flagged_protection_and_patrolled_revisions/Trial
>
> What this means is that there would not actually be a separate "autoreview"
> group.  Autoconfirmed users would be given the access rights.  I made this
> simplification because I wasn't able to find any documentation of any clear
> decision on this front.
>
> Since that time, a debate was started over here:
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Requests_for_comment/Flagged_revisions_trial
>
> Listed in there is documentation of a couple of polls that were run.  I'm
> reading through those polls to try to understand where the support and
> opposition comes from.  Needless to say, we need to wrap up that debate
> before I can explain further how this is going to work.  If you have
> opinions, please post them there.
>
> Thanks
> Rob
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