AllowEncodedSlashes

If you are using Apache 2.3.12 or later, you should set AllowEncodedSlashes to "NoDecode". Add the following line to your ‎<VirtualHost> or, if you don't have one, at the end of your httpd.conf file:

AllowEncodedSlashes NoDecode

After you edited httpd.conf, Apache needs to be restarted.

Alter your .htaccess (if needed)

If you are shortening your URLs , you need to add an exception to .htaccess to allow the use of the REST API .

FlaggedRevs calls on rest.php . For example:

https://[domain]/w/rest.php/flaggedrevs/internal/review/Main_Page

If the .htaccess conditions are not properly set when the above url is called, FlaggedRevs will literally try to access an article named "W/rest.php/flaggedrevs/internal/review/Main Page".

Here is one way to add an exception to .htaccess, emphasis added:

RewriteEngine On

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/w/rest\.php
RewriteCond %{DOCUMENT_ROOT}%{REQUEST_URI} !-f
RewriteCond %{DOCUMENT_ROOT}%{REQUEST_URI} !-d

RewriteRule ^(.*)$ w/index.php?title=$1 [L,QSA]
RewriteRule ^$ w/index.php [L,QSA]

Promote users to reviewers

After FlaggedRevs is first installed, no user can see the reviewer's widget. To fix this, login as a wiki bureaucrat and go to Special:UserRights, then grant review rights to one or more users. Reviewers will see the reviewer's widget on the bottom of an editable page.

Article review statistics (optional)

For a scheduled collection of article review statistics (viewable at Special:ValidationStatistics), create a cron job to run extensions/FlaggedRevs/maintenance/updateStats.php at a regular interval. Run time php updateStats.php to see how long the script takes to run and set your cron jobs interval appropriately. For example, to create a cron job that runs updateStats.php every hour, add the following to the crontab for the user running the web server (e.g., www-data):

@hourly php /var/www/mediawiki/extensions/FlaggedRevs/maintenance/updateStats.php

User rights and user groups

By default, nobody can review anything, so the first step is to set up user rights.

Basic settings

FlaggedRevs.php comes with a number of configurable variables. These should be configured in LocalSettings.php.

• $wgFlaggedRevsNamespaces – Sets what namespaces may be subject to the review process. This is an array of integers. See Manual:Namespace constants to see what integer the default namespaces map to and use the defined constants for readability.
• $wgFlaggedRevsTags – Sets the tags and their 'levels' setting.

  Definition

  $wgFlaggedRevsTags is an associative array with keys corresponding to each tag name. The only meaningful value of the array is 'levels', which controls the number of review levels, and the array can only have one element.

  Labeling

  • Each tag can be labeled editing the page MediaWiki:revreview-<tag-name>.
  • Each tag level can be labeled editing the page MediaWiki:revreview-<tag-name>-<level-number>.

  By default, the tag is labeled as it appears in the $wgFlaggedRevsTags array. To override this, and show tags for example as their capitalized name, the admins have to edit these pages with the shown content, for example changing the content of MediaWiki:revreview-accuracy

To label the tag levels, the admins have to create these pages with the shown content:

tag	level	labeling page	content
accuracy	0	MediaWiki:revreview-accuracy-0	Inadequate
	1	MediaWiki:revreview-accuracy-1	Spot checked
	2	MediaWiki:revreview-accuracy-2	Accurate

The resulting setup will be:

tag names	level names
Accuracy	Inadequate	Spot checked	Accurate

• $wgFlaggedRevsOverride – Whether the stable version is the default content for pages.

  Individual pages can be configured to have the stable or draft version as the default content by administrators.

• $wgFlaggedRevsTagsRestrictions – An array with keys corresponding to each flag type, and values that are arrays of rights and how high users with it can rate the flags (integral tag level).

  Example

  $wgFlaggedRevsTagsRestrictions = [
  	'accuracy' => [ 'review' => 1 ],
  ];
  

User interface

• $wgSimpleFlaggedRevsUI – When enabled, a simpler, icon based UI is used. Does not affect the tags shown in edit mode.
• $wgFlaggedRevsLowProfile – This setting hides the review status box/bar for pages that are reviewed in their latest version. Explanatory text is also removed from some places.

Workflow

• $wgFlaggedRevsAutoReview – If enabled, every edit by a user with 'autoreview' rights is automatically reviewed upon save. There is no need to hit the "submit review" button. This feature requires that the previous revision was also reviewed; otherwise, auto-review will not occur.
• $wgFlaggedRevsTagsAuto – If wgFlaggedRevsAutoReview is enabled, this settings controls how high each tag can be auto-reviewed. If allowed, tags will be auto-reviewed to the same level the previous revision tags were. This is an associative array; each key is a tag and each value is a tag level.

  Example

  $wgFlaggedRevsTagsAuto = [
  	'accuracy' => 1
  ];
  

Changes in templates are auto-reviewed (per-page). This could possibly cause bad versions to be reviewed. Users should be encouraged to use preview or review the page after saving. You may want to set $wgNamespaceProtection[NS_TEMPLATE] as [ 'editor' ] or [ 'autoconfirmed' ]

Automatic user promotion

• $wgFlaggedRevsAutopromote – An array with keys for days, edits, time spacing, benchmarks, emailconfirmed, recent content page edits, total content edits, content pages edited, edit summaries used, IP uniqueness, and userpage existence as keys. The values correspond to how many days/edits are needed for a user account to be autopromoted to Editor status and whether they must be emailconfirmed and have a user page do so. The user must have at least X edits that are Y or more days apart, where X is the number of benchmarks and Y is the time spacing. Set this variable to false to disable this entirely.
  • If a user has their Editor rights removed, they will not automatically be re-granted (the editor status log is checked for revocations).
  • Some of these counts are not retroactive, so you may notice a delay in promotions.

  Example

  For $wgFlaggedRevsAutopromote, one might have:

  $wgFlaggedRevsAutopromote['days'] = 60; # days since registration
  $wgFlaggedRevsAutopromote['edits'] = 150; # total edit count
  $wgFlaggedRevsAutopromote['excludeDeleted'] = true; # exclude deleted edits from 'edits' count above?
  $wgFlaggedRevsAutopromote['spacing'] = 3; # spacing of edit intervals
  $wgFlaggedRevsAutopromote['benchmarks'] = 15; # how many edit intervals are needed?
  $wgFlaggedRevsAutopromote['recentContentEdits'] = 10; # $wgContentNamespaces edits in recent changes
  $wgFlaggedRevsAutopromote['totalContentEdits'] = 30; # $wgContentNamespaces edits
  $wgFlaggedRevsAutopromote['uniqueContentPages'] = 10; # $wgContentNamespaces unique pages edited
  $wgFlaggedRevsAutopromote['editComments'] = 5; # how many edit comments used?
  $wgFlaggedRevsAutopromote['email'] = true; # user must be emailconfirmed?
  $wgFlaggedRevsAutopromote['userpageBytes'] = 0; # if userpage is needed, what is the min size?
  

Advanced

• $wgFlaggedRevsRestrictionLevels - Restriction levels for autoreview/review rights. When a level is selected for a page, an edit made by a user will not be auto-reviewed if the user lacks the specified permission. Levels are set at Special:Stabilization.
• $wgFlaggedRevsProtection - Set this to use FlaggedRevs only as a protection-like mechanism (Help:Pending changes ), rather than the standard configuration.
• $wgFlaggedRevsAutoConfirm - Define when users get to have their own edits auto-reviewed. Set to false to disable.
• $wgFlaggedRevsHandleIncludes - Whether to use stable versions of templates when rendering the stable version of a page.

To have a wiki where non-users can only see the stable version of articles, see Extension:FlaggedRevs/Restricting unapproved revisions .

Approving pages

Users with some level of review status will have a small rating form on page view (at the bottom of the page) and diffs (at the top of the page) that lets them review revisions. Each tag must at least meet the minimal level of approval. Users should look at the whole page, included templates and images, before reviewing. The (diff to stable) link is very useful for speeding up this process.

Users cannot review a page which they cannot edit. They cannot lower the level of a revision from a level they cannot set. Blocked users cannot do anything.

Upkeep

At Special:UnreviewedPages, there is a list of pages that have not yet been reviewed, for Editors only. A namespace must be selected and an optional category filter is also present.

At Special:OldReviewedPages, there is a list of pages that have been reviewed, but have edits pending. This is for Editors only. An optional category filter is also present.

action=review

Reviews a page.

Parameters

• revid: The revision ID for which to set the flags
• token: A csrf token retrieved through action=query&meta=tokens
• comment: Comment for the review (optional)
• flag_accuracy: Set the flag named "accuracy" to the specified value; (replace "accuracy" with the flag name to set another flag)
• unapprove: If set, revision will be unapproved rather than approved

Example

<api>
  <review revid="12345" />
</api>

action=stabilize

Changes page stabilization settings.

Parameters

• title: Title of page to be stabilized
• reason: Reason for stabilization
• expiry: Stabilization expiry. Default: infinite
• review: Whether to auto-review the page
• watch: Whether to watch the page
• token: An edit token retrieved through action=query&meta=tokens

Example

<api>
  <stabilize title="Foo" default="stable" autoreview="none" expiry="infinite" />
</api>

action=flagconfig

Shows information about review flag configuration.

The following parameters are returned for each tag:

• name: the name of the flag
• levels: the number of possible levels the flag has (not counting the "unreviewed" level)

The displayed name for each flag and the different level names for each flag are MediaWiki messages, so can be set and retrieved through the appropriate page; for example the name for the first level of the "accuracy" flag is located at MediaWiki:revreview-accuracy-1.

Example

<api>
  <flagconfig>
    <tag name="value" levels="3" tier1="1" />
  </flagconfig>
</api>

list=unreviewedpages

Lists pages which have never been reviewed.

Parameters

• urstart: Start listing at this page title.
• urend: Stop listing at this page title.
• urnamespace: The namespaces to enumerate.
• urfilterredir: How to filter for redirects
• urfilterlevel: How to filter by quality (0=sighted,1=quality)
• urlimit: How many total pages to return.

Example

<api>
  <query-continue>
    <unreviewedpages urstart="Arbeitgeberverband_Chemie_und_verwandte_Industrien_für_das_Land_Hessen" />
  </query-continue>
  <query>
    <unreviewedpages>
      <p pageid="4762806" ns="0" title="Aaftink" revid="65175047" />
      <p pageid="4747500" ns="0" title="Abt RS6" revid="64976429" />
      <p pageid="4749877" ns="0" title="Acht Vorlesungen über den Konstruktiven Realismus" revid="65089962" />
      <p pageid="4758156" ns="0" title="Alkylglycerole" revid="65169004" />
      <p pageid="4719044" ns="0" title="All Riot" revid="64767732" />
      <p pageid="4745418" ns="0" title="Allgäu-Panorama-Marathon" revid="64974783" />
      <p pageid="4729976" ns="0" title="An- und Einpressen" revid="64742640" />
      <p pageid="4742559" ns="0" title="Anjara I. Bartz" revid="64925772" />
      <p pageid="4740681" ns="0" title="Anthony Norris Groves" revid="65064712" />
      <p pageid="4759964" ns="0" title="Antonino Asta" revid="65169073" />
    </unreviewedpages>
  </query>
</api>

list=oldreviewedpages

Lists pages that have at some point been reviewed, but for which the most recent revision is not reviewed.

Parameters

• orstart: Start listing from this timestamp
• orend: Stop listing at this timestamp.
• ordir: In which direction to list.
• ornamespace: The namespaces to enumerate.
• orfilterredir: How to filter for redirects
• orlimit: How many total pages to return.

Example

<api>
  <query-continue>
    <oldreviewedpages orstart="2009-09-15T20:23:05Z" />
  </query-continue>
  <query>
    <oldreviewedpages>
      <p pageid="144735" ns="0" title="Two International Finance Centre" revid="64562654" stable_revid="62769201" pending_since="2009-09-15T16:16:33Z" flagged_level="0" flagged_level_text="stable" />
      <p pageid="1629949" ns="0" title="Porta San Sebastiano" revid="64791898" stable_revid="61610797" pending_since="2009-09-15T16:19:32Z" flagged_level="0" flagged_level_text="stable" />
      <p pageid="2157354" ns="0" title="Entwicklungspolitik der Europäischen Union" revid="64640078" stable_revid="59929751" pending_since="2009-09-15T16:38:33Z" flagged_level="0" flagged_level_text="stable" />
      <p pageid="971904" ns="0" title="Federpendel" revid="65142775" stable_revid="59587441" pending_since="2009-09-15T17:37:29Z" flagged_level="0" flagged_level_text="stable" />
      <p pageid="3106812" ns="0" title="Soultzbach-les-Bains" revid="64552516" stable_revid="60455707" pending_since="2009-09-15T19:04:07Z" flagged_level="0" flagged_level_text="stable" />
      <p pageid="1223029" ns="0" title="VfR Bürstadt" revid="65150048" stable_revid="62925935" pending_since="2009-09-15T19:35:30Z" flagged_level="0" flagged_level_text="stable" />
      <p pageid="829158" ns="0" title="GSP" revid="64553869" stable_revid="62913440" pending_since="2009-09-15T19:38:46Z" flagged_level="0" flagged_level_text="stable" />
      <p pageid="3453867" ns="0" title="Agios Dimitrios" revid="65103799" stable_revid="64544222" pending_since="2009-09-15T19:47:10Z" flagged_level="0" flagged_level_text="stable" />
      <p pageid="2583263" ns="0" title="Jörg Kudlich" revid="64554475" stable_revid="62429967" pending_since="2009-09-15T20:03:24Z" flagged_level="0" flagged_level_text="stable" />
      <p pageid="325478" ns="0" title="Liste deutscher Komponisten klassischer Musik" revid="65089571" stable_revid="63582610" pending_since="2009-09-15T20:21:55Z" flagged_level="0" flagged_level_text="stable" />
    </oldreviewedpages>
  </query>
</api>

prop=flagged