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Pending changes
Interface: Pages with pending edits · Pages under pending changes · Pending changes log ·
Documentation: Main talk · Reviewing guideline · Reviewing talk · Protection policy · Testing · Statistics

2010 Trial and 2012 Implementation

Historical: Trial proposal · Specifics · Reviewing guideline · Metrics · Terminology · Queue · Feedback · Closure · 2012 Implementation
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Summary information for editors

Current status - Pending changes (level 1) was re-enabled on December 1st, 2012 by community consensus according to the 2012 RFC.
Logged in users – Logged in users (or users choosing to view pending changes) will see all edits as usual (unless the relevant setting has been changed in their preferences). All edits will still be added to the wiki and inappropriate edits must still be reverted or fixed as usual.
Logged out users – Until checked for obvious vandalism or superseded by appropriate editing, edits by new and unregistered users to "pending changes protected" pages will not be seen by users who are not logged in until approved. Edits by autoconfirmed users are approved automatically at level 1 when the prior revision is approved.
Policy – See the pending changes usage policy and the guideline on reviewing
Reviewer rights – Become a reviewer!.
Support and testing – Test page: Wikipedia:Pending changes/Testing. Bugs: Report them at WT:PC. For more information visit the IRC channel: #wikipedia-en-pc ^connect
Provide feedback and suggestion – Feedback page: Wikipedia talk:Pending changes. Your feedback and suggestions are appreciated.

"Pending-changes protection" (PC protection) is a tool that is being tested on a limited number of articles during a two-month trial. Articles under PC protection are open for editing, but changes will be visible to readers who are not logged in only after being checked for obvious vandalism and clear errors. To become visible to everyone, the edits have to be reviewed by a user with the appropriate access, known as a "reviewer". Reviewers are editors who have enough experience to identify obvious vandalism and other clear mistakes. You can become one too!

The use of PC protection is governed by the protection policy. Also see Wikipedia:Pending changes.

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Advice for admins

To apply pending changes to a page, open up the page protection interface. Scroll down until you see the pending-changes selection box. You can change the status of the PC protection from there; the middle option corresponds to level 1 pending change protection, while the third option corresponds to the level 2 pending change protection. PC and traditional forms of page protection can coexist. For example, a page can be semi-protected, but have level 2 pending changes on so while auto-confirmed users can make an edit, they cannot review their edit and must wait for a reviewer. See the bottom of the page-protection interface for the PC protection log.

Why is this feature being introduced?

Wikipedia has always removed or prevented inappropriate changes using a combination of automated and manual checking, and page protection. But some changes cannot be machine-detected, making their prevention labour-intensive, while protecting articles is a source of frustration to well-meaning editors.

PC protection is an implementation of the highly configurable 'flagged revisions' extension in use on other Wikimedia projects, customized for the current needs of English Wikipedia. It is the first trial of that tool on this wiki.