What I described are flagged revs the other way. Is it possible to
enable them in reverse-mode so that all edits are flagged as good, but
editors can flag them as bad? If not, I can't see how it could be
useful for this purpose...

On Fri, Sep 27, 2013 at 12:06 PM, Bartosz Dziewoński
<matma....@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, 27 Sep 2013 11:51:34 +0200, Petr Bena <benap...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> We are getting somewhere else than I wanted... I didn't want to
>> discuss what should be reverted on sight or not. Problem is that right
>> now lot of vandal-fighters see certain amount of dubious edits they
>> skip because they can't verify if they are correct or not, which are
>> then ignored and get lost in editing history. That's a fact. This
>> problem could be easily solved if these specific edits could be
>> highlighted somehow so that they would get attention of people who
>> understand the topic well enough to check if they are OK. But there is
>> no such a system / mechanism that would allow us to do that. I think
>> this is worth of implementing somehow because it could significantly
>> improve the reliability of encyclopedia content. There is a lot of
>> vandalism that remains unnoticed even for months
>
>
> Really, you have just described FlaggedRevs. It could be enabled by default
> for all articles and would solve all of your problems. Many large Wikipedias
> already use it, including pl.wp and de.wp.
>
>
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