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Extension:Moderation is a powerful anti-spam extension for MediaWiki CMS. It protects small/medium wikis against vandalism by sending all edits/uploads from new users to moderation.
https://mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Moderation
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[Request] Reason for Rejection #27

Closed pxlhuntr closed 6 years ago

pxlhuntr commented 6 years ago

I think adding a text field for why a change was rejected would be extremely useful for feedback.

edwardspec commented 6 years ago

When following Good Practices (see https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Moderation#Recommended_use_.2F_good_practices ), the only reason why you would Reject is vandalism, spam or otherwise ill-intentioned edit. It this situation, you don't have to explain to user why you rejected his/her change.

If the edit itself is useless/incorrect but was made with good intent (e.g. incorrectly formatted, or not interesting, or outside the scope of project - e.g. adding excessive plot details into Wikipedia article about film), it should be Approved and then reverted as usual. In this situation, reason can be specified when reverting.

edwardspec commented 6 years ago

Reject was designed as a one-click operation to save moderator's time.

Adding a reason field implies having a "Reject form", i.e. making it more time consuming to moderate, i.e. making the extension worse for those who follow Good Practices.