Wikibooks:Reading room/Archives/2018/February

Reviewing my own edits
Since today, I have started reviewing my own old edits done before I have granted the automatic reviewer permission. Most of these edits are fixing of spelling mistakes. Can I do this? --Agusbou2015 (discuss • contribs) 17:12, 10 February 2018 (UTC)
 * No problem. We use review mostly to be sure edits made are not vandalism, and we trust you to make that judgement about your own edits.  (Some projects do require independent review, so that usually a user shouldn't review their own edits, though even then really small stuff may be okay; but currently we don't use review that way on English Wikibooks.)  --Pi zero (discuss • contribs) 17:23, 10 February 2018 (UTC)
 * I'm now focusing on review my own edits (mostly spelling mistakes fixed). Once I have finished, I will return to fix spelling mistakes on Wikibooks. --Agusbou2015 (discuss • contribs) 15:15, 11 February 2018 (UTC)
 * ✅, all my edits are now checked. You can check it at Special:Contributions/Agusbou2015. --Agusbou2015 (discuss • contribs) 16:02, 11 February 2018 (UTC)

Review
Seems that every edit automatically invokes a review. I've looked under Policies and in the FAQ for an explanation of review policy and found nothing. Someone other than the editor should review an edit. Correct? The software could enforce this but apparently it doesn't. Thanks, ... PeterEasthope (discuss • contribs) 14:42, 3 February 2018 (UTC)
 * have you seen Review Reviewers ? —Justin ( koavf ) ❤T☮C☺M☯ 15:45, 3 February 2018 (UTC)
 * Were you thinking of Reviewers?
 * There are several different ways flaggedrevs can be used. On Wikibooks we use it primarily as an anti-vandalism bookkeeping device; that is, a revision is sighted to certify that it's basically sound &mdash; that it contains no vandalism, with perhaps some overtones of conforming to basic site policies and practices.  We therefor have autosight turned on in our site configuration: if the most recent revision of a page has been sighted and someone with the review bit makes an edit to the page, it's automatically sighted.  We figure that an authorized reviewer isn't going to intentionally mess up a page.  We're not trying on this project for independent review.  (In contrast, Wikinews is concerned with independent review, so the Wikinews community turned off autosight on that project years ago with a resounding consensus.)  --Pi zero (discuss • contribs) 15:53, 3 February 2018 (UTC)
 * Thanks for replying. Sorry for being clueless but what is your meaning of "sighted" here?  Do you mean "viewed by a human" or "cited" or something else?  The conclusion appears to be that I can review my own edits.  Always I'll approve my own edits; therefore when an editor qualifies to review, positive review can be automatic.  Thanks, ... PeterEasthope (discuss • contribs) 16:07, 3 February 2018 (UTC)
 * In the early era of flaggedrevs, revisions were "sighted"="reviewed". --Pi zero (discuss • contribs) 17:46, 3 February 2018 (UTC)
 * Thanks, ... PeterEasthope (discuss • contribs) 18:31, 4 February 2018 (UTC)

Global preferences available for testing
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Greetings,

Global preferences, a highly request feature in the 2016 Community Wishlist, is available for testing.


 * 1) Read over the help page, it is brief and has screenshots
 * 2) Login or register an account on Beta English Wikipedia
 * 3) Visit Global Preferences and try enabling and disabling some settings
 * 4) Visit some other language and project test wikis such as English Wikivoyage, the Hebrew Wikipedia and test the settings
 * 5) Report your findings, experience, bugs, and other observations

Once the team has feedback on design issues, bugs, and other things that might need worked out, the problems will be addressed and global preferences will be sent to the wikis.

Please let me know if you have any questions. Thanks! --Keegan (WMF) (talk) 00:24, 27 February 2018 (UTC)

Classroom of kids
I was checking recent changes and it appears a group of kids are testing in their sandbox and stuff. Letting the community know and have left 4 message on account walls. Artix Kreiger (discuss • contribs) 15:05, 28 February 2018 (UTC)