 | This page in a nutshell: Add a time based auto-review feature to FlaggedRevs so that all unregistered/newbie edits would be delayed for a few hours before going live; while also allowing vandalism patroller to immediately approve or reject those edits. |
Timed flagged revisions (or "Delayed Revisions with Timed Auto-review" or ExpiringPendingChanges) is a proposed feature that would add a time-based-delay to all newbie edits while also allowing immediate manual approval by reviewers. This virtually combines WP:Delayed revisions and WP:Pending changes.
- Proposal
- Add a time based auto-review feature to FlaggedRevs. The purpose is to add a time delay for IP/newbie edits to articles before they go live. This delay is to combat vandalism, especially for BLP articles.
- Purpose
- Ability to delay all newbie/unreg edits to articles by a few hours unless manually accepted by reviewers. A time delay for all newbie edits will help Vandalism patrollers and watchlisters to accept or revert newbie edits before they become live. It is for all article edits in a wiki. Unreviewed edits can go live after the delay time, hence there will not be any backlog or a conflict with "editable by anyone" policy.
A delay time for newbie edits will help Vandalism patrollers and watchlisters to review those edits and accept or revert them. Unreviewed edits can go live after the delay time, so that there will not be any backlog or a conflict with "editable by anyone" policy.
Vandalism, inaccuracies, misinformation, poor quality content, etc., all go live immediately on Wikipedia. It is why many editors are less enthusiastic in editing this site - it just ends up being a waste of time. Articles written with very much effort get vandalized with ease.
The reliability of Wikipedia can be greatly improved if there is a delay that will put the newbie and IP edits on hold for a limited time (say, 12 hours) to be approved by experienced editors
Outcome[edit]
- Mitigates Vandalism, misinformation, poor quality contents, libel
- Currently any vandalism appears for a few seconds before it gets removed, making many readers unlucky to read the bad revision.
- Brings lost editors who were pushed away by vandalism
- Brings people who never edited because any wiki content can be vandalised easily
- Boosts vandalism patrollers. Currently it is tiring and futile.
- This is a necessary tool to have. Many Wikipedias will deploy it immediately. For instance, indo wiki has deployed PendingChanges for all articles sitewide
- No eternal backlogs. Edits get automatically accepted after specified time.
- Still maintains "anyone can edit" policy
- Solves many BLP issues and libeling
- Reliability and reputation of Wikipedia is greatly improved. Currently it is very unreliable as any newcomer can vandalise
- Replaces auto-review bots in wikis that already use it for same purpose.
Issues[edit]
- May result in Wikipedia:Ownership of content
- FlaggedRevs is unmaintained and challenging.
Features[edit]
- Auto-review Pending edits after specified time
- Delays all IP and newbie edits to article namespace for a specified time unless manually accepted by reviewer
- Reviewers can approve the delayed edits to go live immediately
- It is site-wide, applies to all articles. Does not affect talkpages and other namespaces
Similar tools[edit]
Currently some Wikipedias use bots to autoreview based on time or rules. e.g., fiwiki: Stabilizerbot and PendingChangesBot
Discussions[edit]
- Phabricator Request: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T267642 Add time based autoacceptance to FlaggedRevs (2020)
- WP:Delayed revisions.
- User_talk:Jimbo_Wales/Archive_241#Newbie_and_IP_edits_should_be_vetted_delayed_before_they_go_live (2020)
- Wikipedia_talk:Flagged_revisions/Archive_8#Automatic_sighting_after_a_certain_period (2009)
- https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T6397 Time based anti-vandalism feature (2005)
- Wikipedia:Timed article change stabilisation mechanism (2005)