Daniel Friesen wrote: > Are there any plans to tie FlaggedRevs in with the page protection system? > > I heard something about a feature for making it so that FlaggedRevs was > only applied to specific pages (ie: Ones noted to have heavy > traffic/vandalism) but it appears that the feature has something to do > with whitelisting pages with a config variable, which isn't very good > for my use case. > > > The use case I'm thinking of is this. > > On the Narutopedia nearly every time a new volume comes out, we get > piles of new users coming in trying to add unconfirmed information to > the wiki, most of it false info and pure speculation. For that reason > the community has now taken to the idea of temp protecting articles > related to recent chapters every time a new volume comes out. > > Unfortunately this also causes comments on the talkpage of new users > annoyed they cannot edit the page (despite notes that they are free to > mention any improvements on the talkpage, and it only being temp > protection). So I was considering an alternate option. > > I was thinking of something like FlaggedRevs, kind of like a protection > level. Whenever we have issues with an article getting a lot of trash, > rather than flat out protecting we go to the protection page and from a > list of options [Flagged, Autoconfirmed, Protected] we chose flagged, > meaning specific high-traffic pages likely to have false information put > on them can be set so that all new revisions need to be reviewed before > they show up in the stable page shown to the public up front. >
Yes, something very much like this was proposed on enwiki at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Flagged_protection - its not integrated into the protection form, but it provides an alternative to protection using FlaggedRevs. There's a proposed configuration as well; it may need some tweaks for your purposes. -- Alex (wikipedia:en:User:Mr.Z-man) _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
