Author: brian.mcneil
Description:
English Wikinews is now indexed in Google news.
Auto-sighting and default sighting by those with the privilege is causing unreviewed articles to appear in the Google index. This is undesirable and likely to result in the site being dropped from the index.
sighting should be an explicit action
Version: unspecified
Severity: major
URL: http://en.wikinews.org
Auto-sighting only happens to edits to pages that where sighted and synced before the new edit was made.
"quality versions" do not auto-review however, but "sighted" versions are just supposed to be spot-checked, and not that intricate, hence auto-sighting. This also reduces backlogs.
At any rate, $wgFlaggedRevsAutoReviewNew = false; may be what you want. That is, not auto-reviewing new pages on creation.
wiki wrote:
MattJohnson pop'd onto IRC and asked us to make a more "official" posting other than 'we talked about it on IRC'. So here's a link to the WC: http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Wikinews:Water_cooler/technical#Disabling_wgFlaggedRevsAutoReviewNew . But yes, this is still an issue.
(In reply to comment #3)
MattJohnson pop'd onto IRC and asked us to make a more "official" posting other
than 'we talked about it on IRC'. So here's a link to the WC:
http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Wikinews:Water_cooler/technical#Disabling_wgFlaggedRevsAutoReviewNew
. But yes, this is still an issue.
OK, I'll poke brion :)