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.com>wrote: > 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 Once a revision is no longer current, then whether it was 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 back to that revision, the revert > will automatically be marked as reviewed. For this reason, it's > important not to mark any revision with vandalism as 'reviewed', even > if you immediately fix the vandalism afterwards. > > I made an example of this at [[Wikipedia:Pending > changes/Testing/CBM]]. I used an alternate account CBM2 to make bad > edits, and used my admin account CBM to review them and remove the bad > ones. I intentionally made a mistake at timestamp 3:06 by accepting a > revision with vandalism and then undoing the vandalism separately. > > But later, I looked at this diff > > > http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia%3APending_changes%2FTesting%2FCBM&action=historysubmit&diff=368307529&oldid=368306510 > > and clicked "undo" because it looked safe. > > Looking at that diff, wouldn't you do the same thing? Because the > vandalism was present in both of the versions being compared, the diff > didn't show it. But because the original revision was marked as > reviewed, the new version was also marked as reviewed. > > The moral is you should try not to accept edits with vandalism in > them, under the assumption that any version you review might later > become the live version. > > - Carl > > _______________________________________________ > WikiEN-l mailing list > WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org > To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l > _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l