Oh... So $wgFlaggedRevsAutoReviewNew Override and ReviewForDefault setup 
FlaggedRevs so that it isn't applied to pages unless told to 
specifically, ok.

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Alex wrote:
> 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.
>
>   
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