Tuesday, June 29, 2010

Autoreviewer no more

After a discussion at the English Wikipedia, the name 'autoreviewer' is no longer in use. It is replaced by the autopatrolled right, to avoid confusion with the new 'reviewer' right, which has been in use since the start of the pending changes trial. The autopatrolled right does the same thing as autoreviewer.

I've never supported this change, and never will, anyway. They didn't rename Java or Javascript for the sake of avoiding confusion, did they? But the change is done and there's no way to reverse it, especially since the proposal had gained lots of support in the first place. The thread at the proposals village pump can be viewed here (permanent link).

Note that in the Chinese Wikipedia, the name for the right is 'patrol exempts', which means they don't have to change it. Well, it sounds great in Chinese.