Community Wishlist Survey 2023/Notifications, Watchlists and Talk Pages/Notify users when their revision has been approved or rejected

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Notify users when their revision has been approved or rejected

Problem: On wikis that have Flagged Revisions enabled, new and inexperienced users who haven't yet 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, assuming the new editor knows where to look at all).
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 a patch that several people (including ProcrastinatingReader and Pginer-WMF) worked on in past years, see phab:T54510 (a ticket which has had its priority set to "high" ever since Phabricator was set up over eight years ago, and which 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 in the future. (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 2022 and 2019 versions of this wishlist proposal.
Phabricator tickets: phab:T54510
Proposer: HaeB (talk) 14:54, 5 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Discussion

Voting

Support —2dk (talk) 19:06, 10 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Support Rtfroot (talk) 21:03, 10 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Support Tom Ja (talk) 21:38, 10 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Support Firestar464 (talk) 22:28, 10 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Support Lectrician1 (talk) 22:28, 10 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Support SHB2000 (talk | contribs) 23:23, 10 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Support NMaia (talk) 00:10, 11 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Support Klein Muçi (talk) 00:50, 11 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Support Tgr (talk) 03:52, 11 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Support EpicPupper (talk) 05:24, 11 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Support Soumendrak (talk) 06:46, 11 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Support Gohan 06:54, 11 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Support Kekavigi (talk) 08:49, 11 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Support Dexxor (talk) 09:17, 11 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Support Muted Red Tulip (talk) 09:37, 11 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Support Doktor Züm (talk) 09:58, 11 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Support Oltrepier (talk) 10:00, 11 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Support CaféBuzz (talk) 10:44, 11 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Support SunDawn (talk) 12:49, 11 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose The suspense and uncertainty around a pending revision is a valuable part of the Wikimedia experience. Keep folks on their toes. --Radio-Somewhere (talk) 17:02, 11 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Support --NGC 54 (talk｜contribs) 21:36, 11 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Support Ivario (talk) 22:12, 11 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Support Toadspike (talk) 22:24, 11 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Support Nehaoua (talk) 22:45, 11 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Support Absolutely necessary marketing essentials. This will show newcomers that their contributions count, too. -Killarnee (C•T•U) 00:20, 12 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Support Daniel Case (talk) 03:00, 12 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Support Betseg (talk) 04:11, 12 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Support General Editor (talk) 06:30, 12 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Support HLFan (talk) 08:41, 12 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Support Bencemac (talk) 20:19, 12 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Support Funcrunch (talk) 23:49, 12 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Support Thomas Kinz (talk) 00:32, 13 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Support. Bináris^{tell me} 07:46, 13 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Support Izno (talk) 07:51, 13 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Support Behnam N (talk) 11:32, 13 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Support Akela (talk) 15:47, 13 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Support //Lollipoplollipoplollipop::talk 13:42, 14 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Support Meganinja202 (talk) 15:40, 14 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Support Chefs-kiss (talk) 15:54, 14 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Support BuruRuru (talk) 05:02, 15 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Support Matma Rex (talk) 22:24, 15 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Support Aishik Rehman (talk) 07:48, 16 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Support JFremd (talk) 16:10, 16 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Support Alien333 (talk) 17:55, 16 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Support There should be a notification for users to know whether it has been approved or not. Thingofme (talk) 02:37, 18 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Support Browk2512 (talk) 03:16, 18 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Support Lightoil (talk) 03:18, 18 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Support Fabius Lector (talk) 11:01, 18 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Support Herbert Ortner (talk) 13:00, 18 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Support FoBe (talk) 14:29, 18 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Support · · · Peter (Southwood) ^(talk): 14:41, 18 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Support Vulcan❯❯❯Sphere! 16:02, 18 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Support Molnár Gábor Dávid (talk) 17:07, 18 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Support cyrfaw (talk) 12:18, 19 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Support Jeeputer (talk) 05:28, 21 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Support Santropedro (talk) 01:07, 22 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Support Hkoala (talk) 17:45, 22 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Support Morten Haan (talk) 18:39, 22 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Support Feedback is important. Sennecaster (talk) 02:40, 23 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Support Althair (talk) 04:25, 23 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Support hgzh 07:21, 23 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Support. —— Eric Liu_（Talk） 03:55, 24 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
SupportAs an opt-in in Special:Preferences, as with all other Echo notifications. TheDragonFire300 (talk) 13:57, 24 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]