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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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Edit notice for users subject to moderation #88

Closed ProbablePrime closed 5 months ago

ProbablePrime commented 5 months ago

I frequently have users who are confused by our use of this moderation extension. They don't realize it is in place.

I thought A https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Interface/Edit_notice, might help.

For example the Translate extension adds a notice for various reasons when the page is translated and edited, with a hook: https://github.com/wikimedia/mediawiki-extensions-Translate/blob/master/src/PageTranslation/Hooks.php#L304

For now I'll use the "MediaWiki:Editnotice-N" page to add a notice so that users are not confused, but adding this into the code base here would allow for it to be tied into the settings, groups etc system that this extension adds.

I might contribute this myself, but am making the issue before I do so for discussion.

EDIT: Also found this: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T312587 where Mediawiki added edit notices for mobile editors.

edwardspec commented 5 months ago

User can already see the message [[MediaWiki:Moderation-edit-queued]], which explains everything. This is shown after every edit (both on desktop and mobile).

If the user doesn't read notifications, adding more of them won't help.

ProbablePrime commented 5 months ago

Oh I apologize, I wasn't aware of this page!

I will close this issue, thank you!!