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
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Trial proposal ·
Specifics ·
Reviewing guideline ·
Metrics ·
Terminology ·
Queue ·
Feedback ·
Closure ·
2012 Implementation Discussions: |
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To improve the quality of Wikipedia articles by making vandalism/unverified information/”bad” edits more difficult, some pages in EN wiki have various levels of protection status (e.g., semi-protection and full protection). Semi-protected and fully protected pages (ostensibly) have fewer “bad” edits that surface. For example, semi-protection prevents any anonymous and unconfirmed user to edit. But these articles suffer from the problem that potentially “good” edits by anonymous users can't get through. 'Pending changes' would be a way to allow anonymous edits but queue them for review before they show up in an article.
The current two month trial is being used to test Pending Changes. The test applies Pending Changes to pages that were previously under protection (see Scope. The predominant case involved converting a semi-protected article to Pending Changes Level 1 (PC1). There may be articles that were previously not under any form of protection that are now under Pending Changes, but these conversions are not a focus of the trial.
Given that Pending Changes is being applied to articles that were previously under protection, the following are hypothesized to happen:
Some other areas worth evaluating:
Here's a list of the metrics we've collected so far:
Here are a couple of places where this has been discussed:
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
|
This page will:
To improve the quality of Wikipedia articles by making vandalism/unverified information/”bad” edits more difficult, some pages in EN wiki have various levels of protection status (e.g., semi-protection and full protection). Semi-protected and fully protected pages (ostensibly) have fewer “bad” edits that surface. For example, semi-protection prevents any anonymous and unconfirmed user to edit. But these articles suffer from the problem that potentially “good” edits by anonymous users can't get through. 'Pending changes' would be a way to allow anonymous edits but queue them for review before they show up in an article.
The current two month trial is being used to test Pending Changes. The test applies Pending Changes to pages that were previously under protection (see Scope. The predominant case involved converting a semi-protected article to Pending Changes Level 1 (PC1). There may be articles that were previously not under any form of protection that are now under Pending Changes, but these conversions are not a focus of the trial.
Given that Pending Changes is being applied to articles that were previously under protection, the following are hypothesized to happen:
Some other areas worth evaluating:
Here's a list of the metrics we've collected so far:
Here are a couple of places where this has been discussed: