Extension:FlaggedRevs

Article validation allows for a editor and reviewer classes of users to rate articles and set those revisions as the default revision to show upon normal page view.

These revisions will remain the same even if included templates are changed or images are overwritten. The text with expanded transclusions is stored. Image revisions that were deleted/moved will not however. Depending on the configuration, this may not be a limitation for transcluded pages as well.

Setup
Run the FlaggedRevs.sql query, substituting in your wiki's table prefix.


 * SVN up to MW 1.11
 * Run update.php
 * Run rebuildImages.php

Add the  line to localsettings.php.

Configuration
FlaggedRevs.php comes with a number of configurable variables. To modify these, it is best if you copy them to localsettings.php and change them there.


 * - Makes flagged revisions override the default display only for people viewing pages that are not loggin or don't have an account.
 * - Allow Editors/reviewers to add notes to the bottom of the page.
 * - How long to cache the stable versions.
 * - An array with keys corresponding to each flag type, with an integer values corresponding to the level that makes the flagged attribute considered quality. If each of these are met, the revision will count as "quality" and take precendece over other reviewed revisions. For all reviews, each flag must be rated at least above level 0 ("unapproved").
 * - How many levels are there to each flag.
 * Make sure this is higher than the values in $wgFlaggedRevTags.
 * - An array with keys corresponding to each flag type which have values that are arrays of each group and how high it can rate the flags.
 * - An array with keys for days, edits, and emailconfirmed as keys. The values correspond to how many days/edits are needed for a user account to be autopromoted to Editor status and whether they must be emailconfirmed or not to do so.

Use
First, make sure there is a bureaucrat or steward account (Stewards can set any arbitrary rights). Bureaucrat accounts, by default, can promote users to reviewer status or remove it.

Users with reviewer status will have a small rating form on page view and diffs that lets them review revisions.

Logging
A log of promotion/demotion of reviewers and why is kept at Special:Log.

A log of the approval/unapproval of revisions is kept at Special:Log.

Limitations

 * Transclusions across wikis are not stabilized
 * External images are not stabilized

Dependencies

 * bug 5877
 * FileRepo - this extension will be delayed until some work here is done, so as to avoid conflicts
 * Bitfields for rev_deleted - for preserving page histories

Licensing and downloads
(c) GPL, Jeorg Baach, Aaron Schulz, 2007