{"id":253,"date":"2009-09-26T14:48:46","date_gmt":"2009-09-26T14:48:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/notes\/?p=253"},"modified":"2009-09-26T19:59:10","modified_gmt":"2009-09-26T19:59:10","slug":"so-what-does-flagged-revisions-actually-feel-like","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/notes\/2009\/09\/26\/so-what-does-flagged-revisions-actually-feel-like\/","title":{"rendered":"So what does Flagged Revisions actually feel like?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you want to know how Flagged Revisions feels to the casual editor, go to Wikinews and fix typos. I&#8217;m not an admin or reviewer on <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikinews.org\/\">en:wn<\/a>, and I just fixed the caption on &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikinews.org\/wiki\/Geelong_win_2009_Australian_Football_League_Grand_Final\">Geelong win 2009 Australian Football League Grand Final<\/a>&#8221; &mdash; check the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikinews.org\/w\/index.php?title=Geelong_win_2009_Australian_Football_League_Grand_Final&#038;action=history\">history<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>What did it feel like? Curiously unsatisfying. The fix not going live immediately left me wondering just when it would &mdash; five minutes? An hour? A day? It felt nothing like editing a wiki &mdash; it felt like I&#8217;d submitted a form to a completely opaque bureaucracy for review at their leisure. (That it actually went live in just a couple of minutes doesn&#8217;t change this.)<\/p>\n<p>Don&#8217;t take my word for it &mdash; go typo-fixing on Wikinews and tell me how it feels to you.<\/p>\n<p>I remain a big fan of flagged revisions for those times when we need it &mdash; as a less-worse alternative to protection or semiprotection &mdash; but, as per its detractors, it really does kill the wiki motivational buzz dead.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/de.wikipedia.org\/\">German Wikipedia<\/a> has, of course, had flagged revisions on <i>all<\/i> articles for quite some time. Can anyone from de:wp tell me how it felt there?<\/p>\n<p>(<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikinews.org\/wiki\/Special:ValidationStatistics\">en:wn statistics<\/a>; <a href=\"http:\/\/de.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Spezial:Markierungsstatistik\">de:wp statistics<\/a>. en:wp having times like de:wp would be an utter failure.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you want to know how Flagged Revisions feels to the casual editor, go to Wikinews and fix typos. I&#8217;m not an admin or reviewer on en:wn, and I just fixed the caption on &#8220;Geelong win 2009 Australian Football League Grand Final&#8221; &mdash; check the history. What did it feel like? Curiously unsatisfying. The fix &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/notes\/2009\/09\/26\/so-what-does-flagged-revisions-actually-feel-like\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;So what does Flagged Revisions actually feel like?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-253","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wiki"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4FmVR-45","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=253"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":257,"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253\/revisions\/257"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}