Re: [WikiEN-l] Problem with the pending changes review screen.

2010-06-16 Thread Carl (CBM)
On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 12:25 AM, FT2 ft2.w...@gmail.com wrote: Once a revision is no longer current, then whether it was accepted, reverted, unchecked or the like in the past is immaterial. This is not quite true. If a revision is marked as reviewed, and a reviewer later reverts the article

Re: [WikiEN-l] Problem with the pending changes review screen.

2010-06-16 Thread FT2
Updated at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Pending_changes#How_it_affects_past_revisions_and_page_history FT2 On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 11:29 AM, Carl (CBM) cbm.wikipe...@gmail.comwrote: On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 12:25 AM, FT2 ft2.w...@gmail.com wrote: Once a revision is no longer

[WikiEN-l] Problem with the pending changes review screen.

2010-06-15 Thread Gregory Maxwell
Imagine an article with many revisions and pending changes enabled: A, B, C, D, E, F, G... A is an approved edit. B,C,D,E,F,G are all pending edits. B is horrible vandalism that the subsequent edits did not fix. You are a reviewer, you go to review page by clicking a pending review link. On

Re: [WikiEN-l] Problem with the pending changes review screen.

2010-06-15 Thread Gregory Maxwell
On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 11:05 PM, Gregory Maxwell gmaxw...@gmail.com wrote: Imagine an article with many revisions and pending changes enabled: A, B, C, D, E, F, G... [snip] I don't know how to fix this. We could remove the reject button to make it more clear that you use the normal editing

Re: [WikiEN-l] Problem with the pending changes review screen.

2010-06-15 Thread FT2
As I understand it, and apologies if mistaken, all of this is based on a misunderstanding of the tool. A reviewer faced with any mix of edits and wishing to do something (ie not ignore it all) has two main choices. They can accept the most recent edit, or they can add an edit of their own (which

Re: [WikiEN-l] Problem with the pending changes review screen.

2010-06-15 Thread Risker
The crux of this issue is that to revert individual edits one has to go to the page history, the pending changes review window does not permit this. Gmaxwell and I have worked out a step-by-step process for even the least technical reviewer to follow. You can find it here: