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Bug 20034 - Reconfiguration of flagged revs on en.Wikibooks
Reconfiguration of flagged revs on en.Wikibooks
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Product: Wikimedia
Classification: Unclassified
Site requests (Other open bugs)
unspecified
All All
: Normal enhancement (vote)
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Assigned To: Rob Halsell
http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Wikibook...
: shell
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Reported: 2009-08-02 00:31 UTC by Raymond Martineau
Modified: 2009-08-07 18:52 UTC (History)
3 users (show)

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Description Raymond Martineau 2009-08-02 00:31:33 UTC
In English Wikibooks, set $wgFlaggedRevsAutoReviewNew=false.

The current configuration as is created an undesirable result for the Foundation of Education and Instructional Assessment book (http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Foundations_of_Education_and_Instructional_Assessment) because a user with Editor privileges created a stub, followed by inexperienced editors adding content to the page (as part of a class project).  This created a massive backlog in Special:OldReviewedPages, and also make it more difficult for the new authors to review their own work (since the "stable" stub was shown instead.) 

Making this config change will:
* Prevent new pages from being auto-sighted; they need to be sited manually by clicking on the checkbox (or by reviewing the page after it is saved.) 

A more permanent measure (either by adjusting the default setting of the variable or relegating it to preferences) may be more suitable. 

The initial discussion about FlaggedRevs is here: http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Wikibooks:Reading_room/Archives/2009/July#FlaggedRevs_Should_Be_Removed_or_Changed
A current conencensus is here: http://en.wikibooks.org/w/index.php?title=Wikibooks:Reading_room/General&oldid=1597536#.24wgFlaggedRevsAutoReviewNew.3Dfalse
Comment 1 Mike.lifeguard 2009-08-02 00:44:14 UTC
Added shell keyword.
Comment 2 Rob Halsell 2009-08-07 18:52:36 UTC
I have added the additional parameter requested, and it is now live on the cluster.

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