Last modified: 2010-11-23 20:47:06 UTC
Anonymous users see the "accepted" version of an article marked with Pending Changes. Logged-in users, however, see the "pending" version. There are only two indicators that they're looking at the pending revision: 1. The "Pending Changes" tab is highlighted 2. There is a "review pending changes" box off to the right. Do we need to make it clearer when someone is viewing a pending revision rather than the accepted version of a page? This issue is a usability task to figure that out.
Quoting the relevant portion of this email: http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2010-October/049813.html Right now, it takes a sharp eye to notice when one is looking at a page that hasn't been accepted yet. The main visual indicators are an icon on the right, and the fact that the "Pending Changes" rather than the "Read" tab is highlighted. What we plan to do here will be modeled on what you see when you're looking at an old revision (i.e. there will be a horizontal notice at the top indicating "This is an pending revision of this page, as edited by 127.0.0.1 (talk | contribs) at 13:37, 7 October 2010. It may differ significantly from the accepted revision.") An old decision that we plan to revisit: currently, the revision you are shown depends on whether you're logged in or not you are logged in. If you're not logged in, then by default, you see the accepted revision. If you are logged in, you see the pending revision by default. Brandon feels pretty strongly that we need to be much more consistant here, always showing the accepted revision regardless of logged-in status. There's some research we need to do to make sure we understand the current rationale, but barring any unexpected insight, we'll probably be making the switch.
Brandon proposes a design here: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Pending_Changes_enwiki_trial/NovemberReleaseDesignChanges
I believe this one was addressed by r76835
