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Pending changes

Out of curiosity, I checked what "data indicates 84% of the articles under pending changes recieved an average of less than one anon edit daily." means. Assuming 1 anon edit daily (so an upper limit), with 1,393 articles under pending changes this gives ~500,000 edits a year by anonymous editors. Even halving that number (average of 0.5 edits per day), hence a quarter of a million, that's still an awful lot of edits... Mike Peel (talk) 19:57, 24 August 2010 (UTC)

Thats a very good point actually. However, articles included under the program are constantly monitered by vandal hunters, since they are the most visible articles, and less then one anon edit daily, sometimes not even vandalism, isn't much. ResMar 21:22, 24 August 2010 (UTC)

I think the pending changes would perhaps free up the vandal patrollers to clear other backlogs. Stifle (talk) 08:07, 25 August 2010 (UTC)

No, it wouldn't. All it would do is shift it off to other vandal patrollers. —Jeremy ^{(v^_^v Dittobori)} 22:37, 28 August 2010 (UTC)

How exactly does pending changes interact with transcluded content? If pcp was applied to a template, would subsequent edits to that template have to be approved before they would be visible in transclusions? 「ダイノガイ千？！」^{? · Talk⇒Dinoguy1000} 20:56, 24 August 2010 (UTC)

Alternatively, if PCP was applied to a template, would it make the parser hallucinate? =) 「ダイノガイ千？！」^{? · Talk⇒Dinoguy1000} 00:11, 25 August 2010 (UTC)