Wikipedia:Pending changes/Closure

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Logged out users – Until checked for obvious vandalism or superseded by appropriate editing, edits by new and unregistered users to "pending changes protected" pages will not be seen by users who are not logged in until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.

The following discussion is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section.

The scheduled two-month trial has ended. The community should now decide if the implementation is to be continued, and it should discuss possible adaptations, in terms of policy. Developers have indicated it would be too complex to turn off the feature, then turn it back on in case the decision is in favor of continuing the implementation, so they will wait for the community decision — unless it takes more than a month, in which case they will turn off the feature. In the meantime, it is possible to ask administrators to stop adding new pages under pending changes.

The trial was approved in this poll. A community consensus is required to continue the implementation. A discussion phase of roughly two weeks analysed the trial, and a decision phase with a classic support/oppose continuation poll of two weeks began on 22 August 2010 (00:00 UTC). It will end on 5 September 2010 (00:00 UTC). The organization of the closure is still under discussion.

For information, you may consult the feedback given during the trial. As of 20 August 2010, there were 1,409 articles under pending changes, and the average lag for pages with unreviewed edits pending was 4 minutes, 30 seconds — see Special:ValidationStatistics for updated statistics, and Wikipedia:Pending changes/Metrics for metrics on usage of pending changes. The Preliminary Analysis page has some cuts of data that may be useful for discussion. There are also Village Pump proposals relating to the discussion (FA Pending Revisions proposal).