MediaWiki's patrol feature

[Karsten Wade]

On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 10:10:27PM -0600, Ian Weller wrote:
> A lot of you people don't know about this feature since you're not wiki
> admins. But here goes.
> 
> http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Patrolled_edits
> 
> I recently posted about lurking Special:RecentChanges, but if multiple
> people work together on this medium of checking every edit, it would
> make it a lot simpler for everyone.
> 
> Those who can patrol edits will see a red, bold exclamation point to
> every non-patrolled edit.
> 
> My basic concept would be to create a patrollers group and the higher-up
> wiki people to it. These people would then be able to patrol (or, in a
> sense, "approve" edits).

So, iiuc, this doesn't exactly block edits appearing.  Instead it
makes the lives easier for people who like to look at "everything" by
helping us know if someone else has already checked an edit.

If yes, then a big +1.

- Karsten
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Karsten 'quaid' Wade, Community Gardener
http://quaid.fedorapeople.org
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