Last modified: 2008-08-03 19:15:31 UTC
Hello, the German version of Wikipedia is inquiring about whether the trial of FlaggedRevs, which has been going on for three months, should continue or not. The debate has been extremely controversial, and has various conceptual short comings, as well as the unknown technical aspect of the FlaggedRevs. The first question that faced us was whether 'sighted and reviewed versions' are only two possible flags of FlaggedRevs, or if they are FlaggedRevs itself. If creating new flags for FlaggedRevs would be possible, we would concentrate on the 'sighted flag' itself, and not on the many proposals put forward in the debate, which would create completely new flags different from the original aim of the sighted flag. A conceivable and useful possible new flag would be one to easily control and divide the work amongst editors in editorial staff. Certainly, the German wikipedia users will have to come to a decision in the future with regards to possible new flags. The question is therefore obvious: Is it possible to provide different flags in FlaggedRevs, each working independently from one another? Another question arose during the course of the discussion - namely, that if it would be possible to connect the default opened tab ('Article' with the latest sighted version of the article, and 'draft' with the newest, probably not sighted version of the article) to the user options. Every registered user should be able to decide by himself if he wants to see the newest or the latest sighted version of an article. The second question is if it would be possible to connect the default setting of the default view to the user rights. One of the possibilities which we want to offer the German Wikipedia users is that only users with the right to set a 'sighted'-flag have the draft tab opened by default. I hope you can answer my questions. By the way, this ticket is not a featurerequest, it's only about the technical practicability. greetings, Daniel Rudolf aka Vanger (http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Vanger)
a) There are three revisions levels possible: sighted, quality, and 'pristine'. The quality level depends on what tags need to be at a certain minimum level. "pristine" is where all tags are at the highest level. On .de there is only one flag, and it's name was made to correspond to the the level 'sighted', to keep things simple. There can be more flags, but not more levels. Levels are what let revisions take precedence over others and can be used to sort/query pages. There are three levels as the software is. b) There is already one stability preference to let users see the stable by default. Since, normally, users with accounts see the draft by default, this lets them go the other way. c) As for rights, certain groups can be set to see the current version (draft) by default already.
Hi, thank you for your explanation. greetings, Vanger
