Wikipedia:Deferred revisions

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The intent of deferred revisions is to provide a way to delay the visibility of edits that have been flagged for deferral by the edit filter until they have been accepted or reverted by a reviewer. This implementation proposal attempts to use the FlaggedRevs and AbuseFilter features together in order to achieve that goal in an integrated way and without need for a new extension.

This proposal involves modifying the edit filter to create a new available action: the ability to enable pending changes protection, however in a time-limited manner: as soon as (or soon after that) any revision becomes accepted (automatically or manually), the added pending changes protection is removed automatically. As such, on pages without prior pending changes protection, only edits flagged as suspect will not be visible immediately; and they will await review in the same manner as other edits to pages protected by pending changes. Edit filters are limited by MediaWiki so that they can only catch a small percentage of edits and edit filter managers ensure that the false positives rate is minimized.

The action to enable and disable intermittent pending changes protection is noted in the pending changes protection log, but not in the history of the affected page. The last edit prior to the suspect edit is automatically accepted when pending changes is enabled, reviewers cannot have their edits deferred for review. An edit filter using this action can at first warn the user before deferring the edit.

Pending changes protection can either be set at level 1 or level 2. At level 1, only edits by unregistered or new users can be deferred, across all pages without pending changes protection. At level 2, edits by autoconfirmed users can also be deferred. However, on pages already under pending changes at level 1, after a new revision is accepted, the edit filter should downgrade protection back to level 1 (and not altogether remove it), with the prior expiry, and cite the prior protection summary. Generally, deferrals should be of level 1 type. The feasibility and desirability of setting a level 2 deferral is to be discussed.