Wikipedia talk:Deferred changes/Implementation

Monitoring effects on the pending changes backlog

In check[ing] that this does not add excessively to the backlog it may help to use the output from DatBot, which now reports every 15 minutes on the size of the pending changes queue. {{Pending Changes backlog}} can be used to alert reviewers and others when a logjam is developing: Noyster (talk), 14:14, 10 December 2016 (UTC)

@Noyster: Yes, it's going to be very helpful, thanks. Cenarium (talk) 19:48, 18 December 2016 (UTC)

Handling single-editor pages

Wikipedia:Deferred changes says When the page has a single author, and the edits can therefore not be deferred, it would be listed on a dedicated special page.

There are some alternatives:

• Move the page to a dedicated location and turn the resulting redirect into a boilerplate message that links to the now-moved page. When the review is complete, have an admin-bot move the page back. Suggested location for article pages: Talk:[basepagename]/pending-review. Have all such pages be off-limits to web-crawlers.
• Create a new edit that has boilerplate text that says "this page is the work of only one contributor and is in the process of being reviewed, see the previous edit [link] for the revision being reviewed." List the page in a tracking category or on a special page.
• Have a dedicated fully-protected page that consists of nothing but a few hundred "blank page" edits. When a single-author page needs to be reviewed, use page-deletion and -un-deletion to "split" this "blank page" into two pages. One will consist only of the oldest edit, the other will consist of newer edits. History-merge the oldest edit into the history of the page that needs to be reviewed, then process it as you would any other page that needs to be reviewed. Add a new "blank page" to the edit history of the dedicated "blank page" page. When the page is reviewed, have a bot "peel off" that oldest "blank" edit and history-merge it back into the dedicated "blank page" page. This method isn't foolproof: It is subject to resource-exhaustion and it won't work if there are no available "blank page" edits older than the oldest edit in the page that needs reviewing.

All of these add some degree of complexity, but they do get the job done. I'm sure there are other ways to handle this problem as well. davidwr/(talk)/(contribs) 23:26, 12 January 2017 (UTC)