[WikiEN-l] Re: Recent Changes Patrol

Tue Aug 10 04:54:44 UTC 2004

Daniel Mayer wrote:

> --- Timwi <timwi at gmx.net> wrote:
> 
>>Can you describe that addition in greater detail, so that I know exactly 
>>what I need to do?   How exactly will people alter the number, and what 
>>values should show up as what?
> 
> Nothing elaborate or hard at this point. Setting a sitewide value, as I
> suggested (admin only for en.wiki and 2 admins to make things happen), would be
> fine for now. 

I have thought of another problem.  Do they have to be different admins? 
  Currently I am not keeping track of who did the approving, so it is 
perfectly possible for the same admin to raise the value twice (and this 
can happen inadvertently very easily: just accidentally hit the link twice).

> When viewing diffs, admins could be presented with a "checked for vandalism"
> box they could click.

Well, this already exists, except it's not a box, but a link, and it 
doesn't say "checked for vandalism", but "mark as patrolled".  :-)

> Then as soon as two admins have selected that option,
> then that page edit would be grayed out on RC and newpages

The way I have done it now, the edits are not greyed out, but instead 
unchecked edits are highlighted with a yellow background colour, and 
checked ones display as they do now.  I thought of greying things out 
first, but it looked really rubbish when most of Recent Changes was 
marked as patrolled.

> (watchlists would be
> nice, if that is easy to code, otherwise forget it for now).

Unfortunately, this is not easy, because for some reason the Watchlist 
was made to use the 'cur' table rather than the 'recentchanges' table. 
I was told that the main reason is that recentchanges only goes back one 
week, while people might want to have a Watchlist that goes back 
further.  In return, the Watchlist displays only the most recent edit 
for each page on your Watchlist.

Timwi