Reviewers Mode
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This is a feature request!
The idea of the reviewers-mode or editors mode is to simplify reviewing new and changed articles.
A specialized reviewers-mode user interface should contain following elements:
- at first it should display the actual current version of the article
- next it displays the last changes (configurable for how many or for which span of time) with a select-box to change comparrison with other versions
- next it should display some automatic generated messages (e.g.: vocabulary and reading level assumed, copyright-problems or spelling-mistakes) to simplify some work by automating it like searching in google if the text is stolen from other web-sites...
- this should be followed by the normal edit-box for doing fast corrections
- this should be followed by the text of the discussion if this is not empty
- next the page should display a textfield, in which new comments for the discusion-page can be insert
- the last part should contain some checkboxes and a submit-button. the checkboxes can by used to automatically do some often needed correction like adding the disambiguation-text (or some other) or insert the article-name into some "to-be-deleted-lists"
- if the page is part of a en:Wikipedia:WikiProject, that project can pop up in a new browser window.
- past en:Wikipedia:NPOV disputes on that page are summarized somehow, say by the edit comments made when the dispute notice was added or removed.
After submitting "the report" the user automatically gets the next article which has to be reviewed. furthermore it is stored that the article was reviewed by the user and thus it is easy to verify which articles really was reviewed. Reviewing would be necessary again after major edits.
This is especially important to prepare any static version we might create. Two or more reviewers might have to pass articles before they are marked as "clean" for say the CD version, DVD version or Paper version.
See also: reviewer watchlist