Board Thread:Support Requests - Getting Technical/@comment-4525527-20150520164726/@comment-452-20150520173840

Not in the form described.

It would be possible to Protect the pages normally, and create a /draft subpage which anyone can edit.

That's one way to deal with excessively vandalised pages, yet leave a way for people to suggest changes.

However, I wouldn't do that wiki-wide, because it kinda goes against the spirit of wikis, and this kind of pro-active protection is rarely necessary. I know of one user who protects each and every file she uploads, which just seems like a waste of time to me. Protection should only be used to prevent actual vandalism, not hypothetical vandalism.


 * Who would "approve" the edits before accepting them?
 * Why can those people not simply use Special:RecentChanges and check each new edit, and undo them when there is a problem?

One of the core wiki guidelines is "assume good faith", which means a variety of things, but in this case means "assume people are going to make good edits", and your proposal seems to "assume people are going to make bad edits".

I personally like to "trust but verify", which in this case means I have very few protected pages, and trust all users to edit any pages, but inspect all edits to verify that they were good edits.