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Bug 14756 - Flagged revisions should be able to enable review of templates/transcluded material
Flagged revisions should be able to enable review of templates/transcluded ma...
Status: RESOLVED INVALID
Product: MediaWiki extensions
Classification: Unclassified
FlaggedRevs (Other open bugs)
unspecified
All All
: Normal enhancement with 3 votes (vote)
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Assigned To: Aaron Schulz
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Reported: 2008-07-08 12:53 UTC by Gregory Maxwell
Modified: 2008-07-08 16:10 UTC (History)
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Description Gregory Maxwell 2008-07-08 12:53:30 UTC
On Wikimedia commons the material which most often needs to be reviewed is not article text but *template text*.

We have a great many complicated and/or important templates. Some are used on hundreds of thousands of pages. We prefer our templates be open to editing but we then run the risk of high-impact vandalism, or the insertion of dubious instructions getting missed.

Iff flagged revisions could be used in a mode where only the latest revision with a particular flag (or better) is transcluded we could keep our templates open to editing and avoid the problems involved in open editing.

The support would need to be smart enough to not trigger reparsing of the transcluding pages except when the flag hsa been set on a new revision. This would also allow us to batch multiple changes to a high-usage template into a single expensive purge operation.

No difference in behavior or display for transcluding pages while there is a pending template change would be desired.
Comment 1 Gregory Maxwell 2008-07-08 13:04:28 UTC
Oh, also... Just to make things extra fun: It would be ideal if there mechanism to preview a page with all the most current templates (rather than just the flagged ones), so that a newly revised template could be tested before being pushed without having to fork it for testing.

 
Comment 2 Aaron Schulz 2008-07-08 16:10:10 UTC
See $wgUseStableTemplates

Preview still uses the current version.

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