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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 Logged out users – Until checked for obvious vandalism or superseded by appropriate editing, edits by new and unregistered users to "pending changes protected" pages will not be seen by users who are not logged in until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.

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.

Conduct

How should the trial be conducted? Should we create control groups?

Flag protection

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 protection policy.

Reviewing

Creation of a draft policy/guideline Misplaced Pages:Reviewers to cover:

  • creation of reviewers
  • patrolling
  • Reviewing, in case of:
    • Semi flag protection
    • Intermediary flag protection
    • Full flag protection


Content

In addition to reviewing policy/guideline content, other content will need to be created and/or modified.

  • 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.
  • etc.

Measure of success

measures, metrics for trial success, etc, some can be adapted from Misplaced Pages:Flagged revisions/Trial/Proposed trials#Possible metrics to measure success of trials

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