[WikiEN-l] Markiing a version with a status flag

Tue Aug 10 08:07:45 UTC 2004

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Logged-in users only. Can be easily extended with yes/no-options (or 
just "yes", and "no opinion"). Has been waiting in the wings for - what 
- weeks?

Magnus

Poor, Edmund W wrote:

>One idea that came out of the Boston meeting was very similar to what
>Maveric asked for: a way of reducing duplicate effort on RC patrol.
>
>The idea is very simple conceptually, and ought to be fairly easy for
>our noble, selfless team of hard-working developers to implement.
>
>Every user can "flag" a particular version of an article with a status
>code, such as:
>
>* RC Cleared: I have glanced at the diff and certify that this latest
>edit was NOT "simple vandalism" (i.e, graffiti like "Jerry has big ones"
>or "Toby loves Christine").
>
>* Unfair revert: Looks like someone is ignoring everyone else's
>contributions and trying to make the article endorse their own POV.
>
>If Mav or someone else I've come to trust has flagged a particular
>version of an article as "RC Cleared" (or whatever we end up calling
>it), then:
>
>1. I don't have to bother re-doing his work: I can go on and check the
>next edit in the Recent Changes queue.
>
>2. I might not even want to see that version in my custom RC list. That
>is, I'd like an option that says to show me all Recent Changes that
>HAVEN'T GOT an "RC Cleared" flag attached to them
>
>We might even fine-tune option #2, if it's not too hard for the
>developers: let each user specify a short list of "trusted users". Then
>the option would be to show all Recent Changes that DON'T HAVE an "RC
>Cleared" flag from anyone in my "trusted users" set. 
>
>(The SQL code for this is trivial, by the way.)
>
>With a flag like "Unfair revert", we could sort articles by:
>
>* Current version has more than 2 "Unfair revert" flags; or,
>
>* More than a total of 5 "Unfair revert" flags have been placed on all
>versions of this article in the last 3 days.
>
>(Each user could specify parameters like "more than 3 flags" on current
>version, or "more than 12 total in the last 5 hours".)
>
>The questions are:
>
>A. Does anyone else want this?
>B. Will it slow down the server?
>C. Is it valuable enough to justify trying it out?
>
>Ed Poor
>Developer Emeritus
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