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The extension FlaggedRevs is a MediaWiki extension that activates an approval mechanism. New versions of a page are initially marked as drafts and remain so until a user with review rights approves the page.

Activating the acceptance feature

Activating the acceptance feature is done on the namespace level. A user with admin permissions activates the feature in Global actions > Management > Namespace manager for individual namespaces. The dialog window opens after clicking the edit icon (wrench) in the Actions column. Select Approval and click Done.

Activate the Approval feature

Existing pages

After activating Approvals for a namespace, all pages in the namespace are set into first draft mode.

Each page in the namespace now displays a banner at the top of the page with the acceptance status (1) and a quick link to publish the page (2).

New pages

When a new page is created and first saved, it will automatically be visible to all users. Subsequent page edits will be collected in the draft version of the page. If a page is edited and saved multiple times while in draft mode, each edit gets logged in the version history:

Draft revisions

The revisions in draft status have a dotted border and are highlighted in orange. In addition, they are marked as pending review. These revisions can be compared before the pending changes of the page are accepted.

Accepting a page

Users with review rights can accept a draft page any time they save a page (Accept this unreviewed page):

Accepting pending changes

If the page is not accepted at this point, it can be accepted independently from the editing process.

A user with review rights can accept the page quickly with the review feature in the title section of the page. The draft message will display an arrow which includes the accept function:

Accepting a draft from the title section

Alternatively, the reviewer can go to the Acceptance page in the Quality Management toolbar instead:

In both cases, the reviewer can leave a comment. This comment will then be shown in the version history of the page.

The page now shows the page version as accepted.

Setting read permissions for drafts

By default, all users can see the drafts of a page, even readers.

To hide drafts from readers, the group user has to be removed from the configuration. An administrator deletes the group user form "Show unstable pages for the following groups" in Global actions > Management > Config manager:

Template:Box Note When the group user is removed, only sysop and reviewer users can access drafts. If you want other groups, for example editor, to see draft versions, you need to add them to the configuration and save it:

The two checkboxes Automatically set the page to stable... (checkbox is available until version 3.1.) and Automatically delete the workflow... determine what happens at the end of a workflow, if there is an active Review for a page. A page can be set to accepted status by a workflow and the workflow can be deleted after the page is marked as stable. Template:Box Note Anyone with edit permissions will receive a notification that there are pending changes for the page when they access the page in edit mode:

Pending changes notification

Changes to embedded templates and files

If a page includes templates or files such as images or PDFs and there is a change to these files after the page has been approved, this will also be reflected in the status banner (1) and the QM status information in the title area (2).

If the embedded resources are located in a namespace without its own approval function, the version of the resource at the time of page approval is displayed in the approved version of the page. The draft version accordingly shows the most current version of the embedded resource. To approve the resource change, the page has to be approved again. This creates a new page version.

Approving a resource

Before approving the changed resource(s), you should check which resources are affected.

1. Open the quality management tools (1). Here you can see under Approval that there are changes to resources (2).
2. Click on a changed resource (3) to display the changes between the last two versions of the resource.
3. Click "Review now" (4) under Unapproved changes. This will take you to the draft version of the page. From there you can approve the page in the title area. Note: If there are several changed resources, they can only be approved together.

Settings for resources on approved pages

It is possible via server configuration to show embedded resources (i.e., files, templates or transcluded content) that were changed after the page has been released, in a certain version. The following options exist:

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Effects on Semantic MediaWiki properties

Wenn in einem Namensraum gleichzeitig mit der Seitenfreigabe auch Semantic MediaWiki aktiviert ist, sind je nach Freigabestatus der Seite folgende Attribute für SMW-Abfragen verfügbar:

The availability of the semantic properties is determined by the following configuration setting:

$bsgFlaggedRevsConnectorStabilizeSMWPropertyValues = true;

The value for this setting can be set to false in the LocalSettings.php of the server file system. If set to false, the property values of the draft version are used for semantic queries instead of the values for the stable version.

Quality management overview

The Special page Special:Quality_management_overview allows users with admin or reviewer rights to view and filter a list of wiki pages and their review status.

Special page Quality management overview

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