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

[morgandawn]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Flagged_revisions

It looks as if the page would have been manually flagged to have locked it. But I agree - it would be useful to have this feature turned off, so someone doesn't accidentally trigger it.

[espresso_addict]

As I recall, the version of flagged revisions that was being trialled a while back on the de-wiki was that *all* pages were included & *all* edits needed admin approval, which seemed to be the software default. The idea of doing this on en-wiki generated such outrage that the rollout was severely limited, so that only a small number of high-profile pages were included & a very large number of editors were given permission to have their edits show unapproved.

[morgandawn]

nods. I did some tests and this is also happening to me and at least one other gardener (possibly more). So you may be correct that this is a global default setting that was turned on. Grrrr. I am so grateful you noticed this.....I never look at the site without being logged in.

More here:
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Extension:FlaggedRevs