4 Jun 2008 20:06
Important new edit patrolling features available
As of today, the "FlaggedRevs" extension is available to any wiki community that wishes to use it. FlaggedRevs is a tool for patrolling changes, identifying high quality article versions, and changing the default version shown to unregistered users. It's highly configurable. As such, we're making it available in two configurations: 1) A minimally intrusive "patrolling" configuration; 2) Custom configurations per your request. == Who needs this feature and where can I see it? == Larger wiki communities will probably benefit more from the use of this feature than smaller ones. If you have problems keeping vandalism in check, and/or want to experiment with new ways to identify high quality content, you should look into this functionality. You can see an English language demo installation of the feature at: http://en.labs.wikimedia.org/ The feature is in production use on the German Wikipedia: http://de.wikipedia.org/ The German Wikipedia uses a custom configuration where the most recent vandalism-patrolled version, if any, is shown to unregistered users. You can track the progress of their use of the patrolling feature here: http://tools.wikimedia.de/~aka/cgi-bin/reviewcnt.cgi?lang=english == Patrolling Configuration ==(Continue reading)
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