This page in a nutshell: Add a time based auto-review feature to FlaggedRevs so that all unregistered/newbie edits would be delayed for a few hours before going live; while also allowing vandalism patroller to immediately approve or reject those edits. |
Timed flagged revisions (or "Delayed Revisions with Timed Auto-review" or ExpiringPendingChanges) is a proposed feature that would add a time-based-delay to all newbie edits while also allowing immediate manual approval by reviewers. This virtually combines WP:Delayed revisions and WP:Pending changes.
A delay time for newbie edits will help Vandalism patrollers and watchlisters to review those edits and accept or revert them. Unreviewed edits can go live after the delay time, so that there will not be any backlog or a conflict with "editable by anyone" policy.
Vandalism, inaccuracies, misinformation, poor quality content, etc., all go live immediately on Wikipedia. It is why many editors are less enthusiastic in editing this site - it just ends up being a waste of time. Articles written with very much effort get vandalized with ease.
The reliability of Wikipedia can be greatly improved if there is a delay that will put the newbie and IP edits on hold for a limited time (say, 12 hours) to be approved by experienced editors