Wikipedia:Pending changes/Trial

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

Current status - Pending changes (level 1) was re-enabled on December 1st, 2012 by community consensus according to the 2012 RFC.
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.
Logged out users – Until checked for obvious vandalism or superseded by appropriate editing, edits by new and unregistered users to "pending changes protected" pages will not be seen by users who are not logged in until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.
Policy – See the pending changes usage policy and the guideline on reviewing
Reviewer rights – Become a reviewer!.
Support and testing – Test page: Wikipedia:Pending changes/Testing. Bugs: Report them at WT:PC. For more information visit the IRC channel: #wikipedia-en-pc ^connect
Provide feedback and suggestion – Feedback page: Wikipedia talk:Pending changes. Your feedback and suggestions are appreciated.

This page serves to document and centralize some issues related to the conduct and evaluation of the trial. The trial will last for two months and then a community discussion will decide the future of the implementation, the default being deactivation.

Development status

(updated 2010-11-15) - We are currently planning to roll out a new version of the FlaggedRevs/Pending Changes wikis to all wikis on Tuesday, November 23 sometime shortly after 3:15pm PST (23:15 UTC). This will have the new reject button, some new Javascript to help complicated diff pages load faster, and many under-the-hood code improvements.

We're currently tracking the list of items we intend to complete in Bugzilla. You can see the latest list in Bugzilla, and get more detailed information on the WMF development project page for Pending Changes.

Initial article count limits

We are initially applying the trial configuration of Flagged Protection to, at most, 2000 articles (though the precise figure could be adjusted as the trial proceeds). This is because:

From de.wikipedia.org and flaggedrevs.labs.wikimedia.org shows that Flagged Protection will impact performance. So the WMF developers would like to start small.
The community can get used to this feature with a limited number of articles, instead of letting it loose on any page.

If performance takes a hit, the ops team may roll back Flagged Protection to fewer articles (mechanism TBD), rather than shutting off the feature altogether. If things are going well on both the performance and community norm fronts, the operations team may increase the limit during the trial. There are not currently plans for a limit after the trial period. However, there may need to be some mechanism in place to prevent drastic increases in the number of articles placed under Flagged Protection to safeguard site performance.

Which articles to apply pending changes to

See Wikipedia:Pending changes/Queue, Wikipedia:Pending_changes#Scope and talk pages.

Which criteria to base upon for reviewing

See Wikipedia:Reviewing pending changes#Reviewing process.

Which criteria for becoming reviewers

See Wikipedia:Reviewing pending changes#Becoming a reviewer and talk page.

Open policy issues

Discussed on talk pages of Wikipedia:Pending changes and Wikipedia:Reviewing pending changes.

Open technical issues

Please add these at http://flaggedrevs.labs.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia:FlaggedRevs_issues. (This wiki is locked now.)

Measure of success

Wikipedia:Pending changes/Metrics

Terminology

Wikipedia:Pending changes/Terminology

Testing

Wikipedia:Pending changes/Testing

Permission levels

Current flaggedrevs.labs configuration
Permission	Description	anonymous+new editors	autoconfirmed users	confirmed users	reviewers	administrators
edit	Edit pages	Yes	Yes	(implied)	(implied)	(implied)
autoconfirmed	Edit semi-protected pages		Yes	Yes	(implied)	(implied)
autoreview	Have one's own edits automatically marked as "accepted"		Yes	Yes	(implied)	(implied)
movestable	Move accepted pages		Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
review	Mark revisions as being "accepted"				Yes	Yes
stablesettings	Configure how the published version is selected and displayed					Yes

The full and current version of the configuration can be found at Special:ListGroupRights.

List of bugs

Please list bugs related to this trial here:

T26043 - Review edit conflicts are not gracefully handled
T26007 - MediaWiki:Diff-multi should mention the number of users having edited intermediate revisions
T25916 - Pending changes in related changes
T26124 - Diffs are taking 10 to 20 seconds to load