Community Wishlist Survey 2022/Notifications/Notify users when their revision has been approved or rejected
Notify users when their revision has been approved or rejected
- Problem: On wikis that have Flagged Revisions enabled, new and inexperienced users who don't yet have achieved the required user status have to wait for an established editor to review and approve their edits to go live in the default version of an article. This can take many hours, days, or even weeks, and there is no easy way to find out about it (apart from keeping to reload the page or its revision history/logs, and knowing where to look).
- Proposed solution: Create a new notice type in Notifications (for logged-in users) similar to the existing one for Thanks. There are already some design mockups and patches from past years by e.g. ProcrastinatingReader and Pginer-WMF at phab:T54510 (a ticket which has its priority set to "high" ever since Phabricator was set up over seven years ago, and is tagged "good first task" currently).
- Who would benefit:
- Directly: New and inexperienced users who are logged in, by receiving either positive reinforcement or guidance on how to avoid rejection of their edits. (It should be noted that rejections are very often combined with reverts, which already generate a notification by themselves currently. In other words, it appears likely that the new feature would increase the amount of positive feedback much more than the amount of negative feedback.)
- Indirectly: all editors and readers, by integrating new contributors quicker, hopefully increasing the retention of productive newbies and encouraging them to contribute more, and aligning them better with community policies and quality standards via tighter feedback loops.
- More comments: See also the more in-depth rationale by Atlasowa here (2013) and the 2019 wishlist version of this proposal
- Phabricator tickets: phab:T54510
- Proposer: HaeB (talk) 04:18, 23 January 2022 (UTC)
Discussion
- While this would be valuable, I think the far bigger issue is that FlaggedRevs doesn't tell editors that their edits are under review. There should be something like a guided tour the first time they make an edit. --Tgr (talk) 22:07, 23 January 2022 (UTC)
- Perhaps, yes. But at the current velocity of user-facing improvements in this area, that would seem unlikely to become implemented before the middle of the 21st century. So it should not hold up this particular piece of progress. (I understand that while the Flagged Revisions extension is deployed on many Wikimedia wikis and can be expected to remain so for the foreseeable future, it has essentially been orphaned - i.e. without code maintenance responsibilities assigned - for many years now.) Regards, HaeB (talk) 01:07, 28 January 2022 (UTC)
Voting
- Support I'm making an article myself and this would really be nice, since I've been confused lately. Rzzor (talk) 19:46, 28 January 2022 (UTC)
- Support Dexxor (talk) 14:47, 29 January 2022 (UTC)
- Support Wiiformii (talk) 16:20, 29 January 2022 (UTC)
- Support ToBeFree (talk) 23:11, 29 January 2022 (UTC)
- Support → «« Man77 »» [de] 13:43, 30 January 2022 (UTC)
- Support FoBe (talk) 21:23, 30 January 2022 (UTC)
- Support Libcub (talk) 23:07, 30 January 2022 (UTC)
- Support JPxG (talk) 00:56, 31 January 2022 (UTC)
- Support HugoHelp (talk) 04:19, 31 January 2022 (UTC)
- Support Trizek from FR 13:44, 31 January 2022 (UTC)
- Support the wub "?!" 14:35, 31 January 2022 (UTC)
- Support Dreamy Jazz talk to me | enwiki 14:54, 31 January 2022 (UTC)
- Support AWESOMEDUDE0614 (talk) 16:13, 31 January 2022 (UTC)
- Support Matma Rex (talk) 16:31, 31 January 2022 (UTC)
- Support Yes, but not making the notifications too much (only rejected) Thingofme (talk) 13:13, 1 February 2022 (UTC)
- Support Daniel Case (talk) 02:54, 2 February 2022 (UTC)
- Support KingAntenor (talk) 06:45, 2 February 2022 (UTC)
- Support Mohammad ebz (talk) 06:58, 2 February 2022 (UTC)
- Support as proposer. Regards, HaeB (talk) 11:05, 2 February 2022 (UTC)
- Support WikiAviator (talk) 16:12, 3 February 2022 (UTC)
- Support Kcomerfo (talk) 19:19, 3 February 2022 (UTC)
- Support -Gifnk dlm 2020 From Middle English Wikipedia 📜📖💻 (talk) 07:54, 4 February 2022 (UTC)
- Support — Bilorv (talk) 20:12, 4 February 2022 (UTC)
- Support Kpjas (talk) 10:25, 5 February 2022 (UTC)
- Support paul2520 (talk) 19:42, 5 February 2022 (UTC)
- Support Casualdejekyll (talk) 21:35, 5 February 2022 (UTC)
- Support —— Eric Liu(Talk) 09:32, 6 February 2022 (UTC)
- Support Newt713 (talk) 14:10, 6 February 2022 (UTC)
- Support Fiver, der Hellseher (talk) 19:45, 6 February 2022 (UTC)
- Support Tgr (talk) 21:56, 6 February 2022 (UTC)
- Support Ayumu Ozaki (talk) 00:03, 7 February 2022 (UTC)
- Support Toadspike (talk) 01:34, 7 February 2022 (UTC)
- Support Tom Ja (talk) 17:55, 7 February 2022 (UTC)
- Support Suonii180 (talk) 19:58, 8 February 2022 (UTC)
- Support — DaxServer (t · c) 20:24, 8 February 2022 (UTC)
- Support · · · Peter (Southwood) (talk): 13:12, 9 February 2022 (UTC)
- Support Marcok (talk) 12:46, 11 February 2022 (UTC)