Last modified: 2010-06-27 20:19:20 UTC
Hello! I would like to draw attention to problems with the interface of FlaggedRevs. About one and a half years ago, when we enabled on pl.wiki FlaggedRevs there was one main idea - we want fight vandalism, but do not exercise editorial control. Moreover, Polish community by introducing FlaggedRevs was convinced for this tool because of the *neutral* vocabulary. There existed keywords like "sighted", "review", "mark"... Now you introduce new keyword like "checked", "approve". I am afraid that this is a very bad idea because many people will think that Wikipedia is controlled by certain people. I would like to call on you to once again reconsider the changes in the interface. Please, do not forget about other major projects when you try to enable FR on en.wiki. Regards, Daniel aka Leinad one of the initiators of the FlaggedRevs on pl.wiki
I'm reassigning this one to myself, though I'm not sure a bug tracker is the right place to deal with this. What's the exit condition? We're not going back to using "sighted" on en.wikipedia.org, if that's the request.
For reference: http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/foundation-l/2010-May/thread.html#58577 http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2010-May/047817.html https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=23623
"Approve" on the simple (binary flag) review form is now "accept". "Sighted" is very unlikely to come back either, being too jargony and hard to translate. The only iffy term is "accepted version", which I'm tempted to make "stable version" again (it was "published version", but that had legal issues). At any rate, any wiki can always customize the messages locally against whatever the generic translations are.
Most of enwiki's changes will be done with local MediaWiki namespace pages and not via a message file patch.
Since they were deployed, do we have any outstanding issues here or can this be closed now?
Closing this. Custom messages were deployed to enwiki, standard messages still exist for other wikis.
Oops...sorry for leaving this one hanging open. Thanks Chad!
