User talk:Howie-test

Welcome
Brian McNeil / talk 13:56, 27 October 2009 (UTC)

Miscellaneous notes

 * See our snazzy tabbed Howdy template above - I made this! You can even start an article from within it. (See cautionary note below.)
 * I mentioned DPL in the email I sent you, see Template:Main headlines for what this looks like (view the source). The "stablepages=only" parameter is what makes sure the listed articles on the front page have all been sighted by someone with the editor privilege. Note the explicit exclusion of items in category no publish; when you're playing with FlaggedRevs always make sure this is present on the page in question.
 * Requesting editor status is done here, the project page on editor status is here. (aside, exceptions to this policy have been made for some noticeably non-native English speakers. This is, generally, where they're trusted with administrator access and can grant themselves editor status. The agreement is they'll then restrict use of editor status to within the non-main namespaces where Flagged Revisions is in effect - avoid reviewing bad grammar or misspelling and publishing it; it might be nice if they can easily make an edit that is not automatically sighted)
 * The "critical" reviewing template is here.
 * Enabled the following on user preferences under Gadgets:
 * Wiktionary Hover (unrelated to FR, but try double-clicking any word that isn't a link)
 * Hot Cat (again, unrelated, tool at bottom of an article to quickly add categories)
 * Easy Peer Review (This is the important one)
 * ENWN magic button (unrelated, adds a "Short URL" link to the toolbox - creates an enwn.net shortened URL for any page on a Wikimedia wiki) Alternatively, if your browser permits creating a javascript bookmark, paste in this code: "javascript:win=open('http://enwn.net/api.php?m=create&url='+escape(document.URL),%20'_new','width=300,height=100');history.go(0);" - yes, you can use this on Wikipedia. The email containing the password to this account includes an ENWN.net url for this page!
 * Point I forgot in my email: If you have editor status and create a page in a FR namespace, it is not automatically marked as sighted; if you edit an unsighted page, your edit does not automatically sight it. Only when the current revision is sighted, and you have the editor privilege, will your edits be automatically sighted. [And, from re-reading this, we could probably change that to automatically sighted on page creation in the non-main FR namespaces.]
 * A "beta" revision status maintenance tool can be seen here.

Having a play
Feel free to use the tab in the Howdy template above to experiment with creating articles but keep to the following rules:
 * Always start the page name with "Sandbox"
 * Always, as one of the first edits, add Category:No publish
 * When you're done with a test page, add the template delete. It will be listed on WN:AAA automatically (via DPL) and an administrator will get rid of it for you.

I've created an initial test page for you: Sandbox:Howie test 1.

You'll notice that Beta (Vector) is now the default skin for English Wikinews. Based on some of the gadgets I've enabled in your user preferences you will see two little arrows pointing down in the tabs at the top of this page. The first is for speedily adding a template to a user's talk page (so unrelated to Flagged Revisions). The second is default in Vector, but we've customised it ;-) In this second drop-down you will find a "Review" option when looking at a main namespace page. Click it to run the easy review gadget.

NOTE! If you pass a review on a page you will automatically be redirected to our main page lead-maintentance utility. Feel free to have a look, but don't click any buttons you even remotely suspect might update one of the lead templates. Use a link in the sidebar to navigate away from this.

The EZ-review gadget, on a successful review, adds a completed peer reviewed template to the article talk page, removes any review template from the article, adds the publish template in the right place on the page, and sights the reviewed revision. This puts the article in Category:Published (thus eligible for selection in a DPL of published articles) and includes our social bookmarks template to allow people to share stories on places like Twitter and Facebook.,

Scratchpad

 * Several people trusted to adhere to the rules laid out above have been given the password to this account.
 * If the password and email attached to the account is changed, the account will be blocked permanently.
 * Leave comments and questions below on your experience with Wikinews' use of Flagged Revisions. (It might be better doing that with your 'regular' account). --Brian McNeil / talk 17:41, 27 October 2009 (UTC)