On Fri, Sep 27, 2013 at 11:38 PM, Risker <risker...@gmail.com> wrote: > I think a few different concepts are being muddled here. > > Flagged revisions (and its variant, pending changes, on enwiki) is applied > to individual articles to hold *all* edits from certain user classes for > review. > > What Petr is looking for is a way to flag *individual edits* to an article > (not the whole article) for review. > > Flagging edits for review through either method means creating an > expectation that someone else will review the edit. The use of FR/PC is (to > date) only enabled following community discussion and usually community > determination of the applicable rules for its use. I suspect that enabling > a means to flag individual edits would also require some sort of community > consensus for its desirability before it is enabled; however, someone's > going to have to write the code first before that happens. >
I don't know how others, but thanks to some my experience with "establishing of consensus" I first ask for it and then code. It's a huge waste of time when you spend months coding and then you receive "sorry we don't want this" response from community... > This does come back to basic socialization of the editing/reviewing > process, and likely some (project specific) rules of thumb for when to > revert and when to take a few minutes and research the new data would be > worthwhile. For example, I'd probably not revert the result of a sporting > match held within the past 48 hours, but I'd probably revert the same edit > if the sporting match was six years ago. Dates of birth are particularly > sensitive and changes to them should always either be sourced or the prior > consensus verified. It's often better to review fewer changes and verify > information (most of which is usually available somewhere online) than to > get as many edit reviews as possible done. I can't tell you how many times > I used to get edit-conflicted by people using review tools when I used to > manually review (and fix) recent changes. > > Risker/Anne > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
