Flagged revisions

[espresso_addict]

A recent problem has brought to my attention the fact that the fanlore wiki appears to be using flagged revisions, ie a moderator has to approve all edits before they are visible when logged out. This system (assuming I'm right that this is the explanation for my problems) seems to me profoundly unsuited for a wiki where the rate of vandalism to existing pages is almost nonexistent (nearly all vandalism appears in the form of uploading promotional images or starting promotional articles) and the pool of moderators is small/overworked. Might I suggest it be turned off?

Comments

[liviapenn]

That is the weirdest thing. I just went in and made a test edit, and then logged out, and (1) you can see my edit on the "Recent Changes" page, and (2) you can see it in the revisions history of the page itself, but you can't see any change to the actual page.

I agree with you, it doesn't seem like a very useful feature considering most current spambots are creating new pages, not vandalizing old ones.

[onceamy]

It's related to the caching Systems put on, and we (Aethel and I) are trying to get things fixed so we use a form of caching that is time-sensitive (i.e. refreshes the cache in a certain amount of minutes). I'm in chat if you still want to discuss this issue -- all questions are welcome.