[Wikipedia-l] Anti-vandalism proposal

[David Gerard]

On 01/11/2007, Pingveno <pingveno at comcast.net> wrote:
> On Wednesday 31 October 2007, Finne Boonen wrote:

> > Or the old patrolling feature, which is part of mediawiki but not
> > turned on on all projects, last time I checked nl.wp is using it, you
> > need have an account that's a few days old, (but it's been a while)
> > it.wp was/is also using it, you might need moderator or other
> > privileges.

> Ah, so it looks like my basic idea (centralized verification of edits) isn't
> entirely new. I'm guessing that the patrolling feature was turned off because
> there are just too many edits going through Recent Changes for that interface
> to be useful. Am I correct?


Not sure. I tried marking edits as patrolled, but there was something
clunky about the interface and people didn't seem terribly interested.
I realise of course I should have written up a proper bug report at
the time ...

The FlaggedRevisions extension has a lot more interest pushing it
forward and a lot of close attention to usability on a busy wiki, i.e.
de:wp. So that should be more useful and usable.


- d.