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Reviewing edits

Updated 2026-08-13

Once a wiki is open to people you have not worked with, you want to see what they changed before readers do. That is the review queue. Working with other people covers roles and why any of it exists.

What lands in the queue

With review on, a save by somebody without auto-accept becomes a proposal instead of going live.

With review on, an edit from someone without auto-accept becomes a proposal. Somebody with permission accepts it and it goes live, or sends it back. Nothing is lost either way - every version is kept.
Page editsThe obvious one.
Category changesA change to which categories a page is in.
Shared layoutsMatters most of all: one of those re-renders every entry built from that table.

A queue that caught article text and let layout changes through would be guarding the cheap thing.

The person saving is told which will happen before they press the button, so nothing disappears silently on them.

Working the queue

  1. Open Manage › Moderation.
  2. Open a proposal and read what changed. The queue shows the change, not the page.
  3. Accept it, or send it back with a reason.
AcceptingPublishes it as a new version.The default. See below.
Sending backLeaves the work with its author instead of deleting it.The difference between a review and a rejection.

Say why. “Sent back” with no reason reads as “go away”, and one sentence is the whole difference between somebody trying again and not.

Keeping it from becoming a bottleneck

A queue nobody empties is worse than no queue. Contributors watch their work sit there and stop contributing. Two levers prevent it.

Auto-accept, per personSomebody right twenty times does not need a twenty-first review. It takes them out of the queue without promoting them to admin.
Turning review offWhile the wiki is you and one other person, it is friction with nothing to catch.

Accept generously

The queue is not a quality bar. Every save is a version and any of them can be put back, so accepting an imperfect edit commits you to nothing.

Send it backWhen it is wrong, unsourced or damaging.With a sentence saying why.
Accept and tidyWhen it is merely not how you would have written it.A contributor whose first edit was accepted makes a second one.

For who edited what outside the queue, recent changes is the other half of patrolling, and the one that matters with review off.