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Bug 15639 - Disable default/auto sighting of new revisions
Disable default/auto sighting of new revisions
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Product: Wikimedia
Classification: Unclassified
General/Unknown (Other open bugs)
unspecified
All All
: High major (vote)
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Assigned To: Nobody - You can work on this!
http://en.wikinews.org
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Reported: 2008-09-18 17:06 UTC by Brian McNeil
Modified: 2008-09-18 23:14 UTC (History)
3 users (show)

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Description Brian McNeil 2008-09-18 17:06:41 UTC
English Wikinews is now indexed in Google news.

Auto-sighting and default sighting by those with the privilege is causing unreviewed articles to appear in the Google index. This is undesirable and likely to result in the site being dropped from the index.

sighting should be an explicit action
Comment 1 Aaron Schulz 2008-09-18 17:14:11 UTC
Auto-sighting only happens to edits to pages that where sighted and synced before the new edit was made.

"quality versions" do not auto-review however, but "sighted" versions are just supposed to be spot-checked, and not that intricate, hence auto-sighting. This also reduces backlogs.

At any rate, $wgFlaggedRevsAutoReviewNew = false; may be what you want. That is, not auto-reviewing new pages on creation.
Comment 2 Aaron Schulz 2008-09-18 20:59:23 UTC
Talked about this on #irc some, is this still an issue on wikinews?
Comment 3 Jon Davis 2008-09-18 21:31:07 UTC
MattJohnson pop'd onto IRC and asked us to make a more "official" posting other than 'we talked about it on IRC'.  So here's a link to the WC: http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Wikinews:Water_cooler/technical#Disabling_wgFlaggedRevsAutoReviewNew .  But yes, this is still an issue.
Comment 4 Aaron Schulz 2008-09-18 21:32:43 UTC
(In reply to comment #3)
> MattJohnson pop'd onto IRC and asked us to make a more "official" posting other
> than 'we talked about it on IRC'.  So here's a link to the WC:
> http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Wikinews:Water_cooler/technical#Disabling_wgFlaggedRevsAutoReviewNew
> .  But yes, this is still an issue.
> 

OK, I'll poke brion :)
Comment 5 Brion Vibber 2008-09-18 23:14:36 UTC
Set.

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