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The purpose of this page is to coordinate the trial and centralize the discussion on its conduct and evaluation. The trial will last for two months and then a community discussion will decide the future of the implementation, the default being deactivation. Each section must be completed based on the discussions before the trial implementation; for now, they are only brief introductions on the subject to debate. This page serves to document and centralize some issues related to the conduct and evaluation of the trial. The trial will last for two months and then a community discussion will decide the future of the implementation, the default being deactivation.
== Development status ==
''(updated 2010-11-15)'' - We are currently planning to roll out a new version of the FlaggedRevs/Pending Changes wikis to all wikis on Tuesday, November 23 sometime shortly after 3:15pm PST (23:15 UTC). This will have the new reject button, some new Javascript to help complicated diff pages load faster, and many under-the-hood code improvements.


We're currently tracking the list of items we intend to complete in
==Conduct==
Bugzilla. You can see , and get more detailed information on the ].
How should the trial be conducted? Should we create control groups?


== Initial article count limits ==
==Flag protection==
We are initially applying the trial configuration of Flagged Protection to, at most, 2000 articles (though the precise figure could be adjusted as the trial proceeds). This is because:
Creation of a draft policy on when to use flag protection, and when to use normal protection in lights of flag protection, both being limited in scope by the official ].


⚫ * From de.wikipedia.org and flaggedrevs.labs.wikimedia.org shows that Flagged Protection will impact performance. So the WMF developers would like to start small.
==Reviewing==
* The community can get used to this feature with a limited number of articles, instead of letting it loose on any page.
For the trial, there will be two protection levels: semi flagged protection and full flagged protection. On semi-flagged protected pages, the latest confirmed revision is displayed to readers by default. All ] users are auto-confirmed on semi-flagged protected pages, that is, if the latest version of a page is confirmed, a new revision by an autoconfirmed user is automatically confirmed. On fully flagged protected pages, only admins will have the ability to confirm edits.


⚫ If performance takes a hit, the ops team may roll back Flagged Protection to fewer articles (mechanism TBD), rather than shutting off the feature altogether. If things are going well on both the performance and community norm fronts, the operations team may increase the limit during the trial. There are not currently plans for a limit after the trial period. However, there ''may'' need to be some mechanism in place to prevent drastic increases in the number of articles placed under Flagged Protection to safeguard site performance.
The following table shows the effect of the new protection levels:


== Which articles to apply pending changes to ==
⚫ {| class="wikitable" style="width:100%; margin:0 auto 15px; text-align:center;"
See ], ] and talk pages.
⚫ |-
! Protection levels
! ] / ]
! ]
! ]
⚫ |-
! Semi-protection
| style="background:#ffdddd;" | Cannot edit
| colspan=2 style="background:#ddffdd;" | Can edit; edits are immediately visible
⚫ |-
! Semi flagged protection (new)
| style="background:#f2e0ce;" | Can edit; a new edit is visible to registered users, but not to readers by default until confirmed by an 'auto-confirmed' user (or an 'administrator')
| style="background:#ffffdd" colspan=2| Can edit; a new edit is visible immediately if the previous version is already confirmed or when the option "confirm this revision" is selected; otherwise the article is unconfirmed until an 'administrator' confirms the edit.
⚫ |-
! Full protection
| colspan=2 style="background:#ffdddd;" | Cannot edit
| style="background:#ddffdd;" | Can edit; edits are visible immediately
⚫ |-
! Full flagged protection (new)
| colspan=2 style="background:#f5deb3;" | Can edit; new edits are visible to registered users, but not to readers by default until validated by an 'administrator'
| style="background:#ffffdd" colspan=2| Can edit; a new edit is visible immediately if the previous version is already confirmed or when the option "confirm this revision" is selected; otherwise the article is unconfirmed until an 'administrator' confirms the edit.
⚫ |}


==Which criteria to base upon for reviewing==
During the trial period, the community will have the opportunity to discuss the possibility of adding a new level of account access for "reviewers" which would be a new level between 'administrator' and 'auto-protected' user. See ] for more.
See ].


==Which criteria for becoming reviewers==
==Content==
See ] and talk page.
In addition to reviewing policy/guideline content, other content will need to be created and/or modified.


== Open policy issues ==
* For example, the "When you click Save, your changes will immediately become visible to everyone." text will not be true for the flagged protection levels. This text appears at the bottom of every edit page; see http://en.wikipedia.org/MediaWiki:Edittools . We need to have this figured out and ready-to-roll before the trial can begin.
Discussed on talk pages of ] and ].


== Open technical issues ==
* etc.
Please add these at http://flaggedrevs.labs.wikimedia.org/Wikimedia:FlaggedRevs_issues. (This wiki is locked now.)


== Initial article count limits == == Measure of success ==
]
The initial plan calls for putting an upper bound of 2000 articles under Flagged Protection, adjusting the number up or down depending on how the trial is going. The rationale:


==Terminology==
⚫ * ''Performance'' - we know already from de.wikipedia.org and from watching flaggedrevs.labs.wikimedia.org that this feature can impact performance. So, the engineering team at WMF would like to start small and build up from there
]
* ''Community norm development'' - this gives the community a chance to use this in production in a limited way to start with to get a feel for the feature in the wild.


==Testing==
⚫ If performance takes a hit, the ops team may wish to roll back Flagged Protection on a portion of the articles (mechanism TBD), rather than shutting off the feature altogether. If things are going well on both the performance and community norm fronts, the operations team may increase the limit during the trial.
]

==Permission levels==


⚫ {| class="wikitable sortable collapsible" style="text-align: center;"
|+ Current flaggedrevs.labs configuration
!Permission!!Description!!anonymous+new editors!!]!!confirmed users!!]!!]
⚫ |-
|edit||Edit pages||{{Yes}}||{{Yes}}||(implied)||(implied)||(implied)
⚫ |-
|autoconfirmed||Edit semi-protected pages||||{{Yes}}||{{Yes}}||(implied)||(implied)
⚫ |-
|autoreview||Have one's own edits automatically marked as "accepted"||||{{Yes}}||{{Yes}}||(implied)||(implied)
⚫ |-
|movestable||Move accepted pages||||{{Yes}}||{{Yes}}||{{Yes}}||{{Yes}}
⚫ |-
|review||Mark revisions as being "accepted"||||||||{{Yes}}||{{Yes}}
|-
|stablesettings||Configure how the published version is selected and displayed||||||||||{{Yes}}
⚫ |}


The full and current version of the configuration can be found at ].
There are not currently plans for a limit after the trial period. However, there ''may'' need to be some mechanism in place to prevent drastic increases in the number of articles placed under Flagged Protection to safeguard site performance.


==Measure of success== ==List of bugs==
Please list bugs related to this trial here:
measures, metrics for trial success, etc, some can be adapted from ]


*{{phab|26043}} - Review edit conflicts are not gracefully handled
*{{phab|26007}} - ] should mention the number of users having edited intermediate revisions
*{{phab|25916}} - Pending changes in related changes
*{{phab|26124}} - Diffs are taking 10 to 20 seconds to load
] ]

Latest revision as of 14:32, 3 October 2019

Pending changes
Interface: Pages with pending edits · Pages under pending changes · Pending changes log ·
Documentation: Main talk · Reviewing guideline · Reviewing talk · Protection policy · Testing · Statistics
2010 Trial and 2012 Implementation Historical: Trial proposal · Specifics · Reviewing guideline · Metrics · Terminology · Queue · Feedback · Closure · 2012 Implementation
Discussions:
Summary information for editors
  1. Current status - Pending changes (level 1) was re-enabled on December 1st, 2012 by community consensus according to the 2012 RFC.
  2. Logged in users – Logged in users (or users choosing to view pending changes) will see all edits as usual (unless the relevant setting has been changed in their preferences). All edits will still be added to the wiki and inappropriate edits must still be reverted or fixed as usual.
  3. Logged out users – Until checked for obvious vandalism or superseded by appropriate editing, edits by new and unregistered users to "pending changes protected" pages will not be seen by users who are not logged in until approved. Edits by autoconfirmed users are approved automatically at level 1 when the prior revision is approved.
  4. Policy – See the pending changes usage policy and the guideline on reviewing
  5. Reviewer rights – Become a reviewer!.
  6. Support and testing – Test page: Misplaced Pages:Pending changes/Testing. Bugs: Report them at WT:PC. For more information visit the IRC channel: #wikipedia-en-pc
  7. Provide feedback and suggestion – Feedback page: Misplaced Pages talk:Pending changes. Your feedback and suggestions are appreciated.

This page serves to document and centralize some issues related to the conduct and evaluation of the trial. The trial will last for two months and then a community discussion will decide the future of the implementation, the default being deactivation.

Development status

(updated 2010-11-15) - We are currently planning to roll out a new version of the FlaggedRevs/Pending Changes wikis to all wikis on Tuesday, November 23 sometime shortly after 3:15pm PST (23:15 UTC). This will have the new reject button, some new Javascript to help complicated diff pages load faster, and many under-the-hood code improvements.

We're currently tracking the list of items we intend to complete in Bugzilla. You can see the latest list in Bugzilla, and get more detailed information on the WMF development project page for Pending Changes.

Initial article count limits

We are initially applying the trial configuration of Flagged Protection to, at most, 2000 articles (though the precise figure could be adjusted as the trial proceeds). This is because:

  • From de.wikipedia.org and flaggedrevs.labs.wikimedia.org shows that Flagged Protection will impact performance. So the WMF developers would like to start small.
  • The community can get used to this feature with a limited number of articles, instead of letting it loose on any page.

If performance takes a hit, the ops team may roll back Flagged Protection to fewer articles (mechanism TBD), rather than shutting off the feature altogether. If things are going well on both the performance and community norm fronts, the operations team may increase the limit during the trial. There are not currently plans for a limit after the trial period. However, there may need to be some mechanism in place to prevent drastic increases in the number of articles placed under Flagged Protection to safeguard site performance.

Which articles to apply pending changes to

See Misplaced Pages:Pending changes/Queue, Misplaced Pages:Pending_changes#Scope and talk pages.

Which criteria to base upon for reviewing

See Misplaced Pages:Reviewing pending changes#Reviewing process.

Which criteria for becoming reviewers

See Misplaced Pages:Reviewing pending changes#Becoming a reviewer and talk page.

Open policy issues

Discussed on talk pages of Misplaced Pages:Pending changes and Misplaced Pages:Reviewing pending changes.

Open technical issues

Please add these at http://flaggedrevs.labs.wikimedia.org/Wikimedia:FlaggedRevs_issues. (This wiki is locked now.)

Measure of success

Misplaced Pages:Pending changes/Metrics

Terminology

Misplaced Pages:Pending changes/Terminology

Testing

Misplaced Pages:Pending changes/Testing

Permission levels

Current flaggedrevs.labs configuration
Permission Description anonymous+new editors autoconfirmed users confirmed users reviewers administrators
edit Edit pages Yes Yes (implied) (implied) (implied)
autoconfirmed Edit semi-protected pages Yes Yes (implied) (implied)
autoreview Have one's own edits automatically marked as "accepted" Yes Yes (implied) (implied)
movestable Move accepted pages Yes Yes Yes Yes
review Mark revisions as being "accepted" Yes Yes
stablesettings Configure how the published version is selected and displayed Yes

The full and current version of the configuration can be found at Special:ListGroupRights.

List of bugs

Please list bugs related to this trial here:

  • T26043 - Review edit conflicts are not gracefully handled
  • T26007 - MediaWiki:Diff-multi should mention the number of users having edited intermediate revisions
  • T25916 - Pending changes in related changes
  • T26124 - Diffs are taking 10 to 20 seconds to load
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