I've just posted a bunch of patches, 433668 - 433678, which attempt to make the editing process more visible for non-editors. They do the following:

• Restrict the viewing of edits to nodes, to those that can actually view those nodes (canReadNode).
• Add a flag for the editors to set, if a particular edit is sensitive (eg removing email/passwords).
• Remove the 'history' link from the editors nodelet, and add it to the approval and node status nodelets.
• Create a new superdoc for editors, to view all recent edits made (default currently, the last 50).
• Link to the new doc from the editors nodelet.

For this to work, the edithistory table needs a new field, "private", see the node editors page patch.

My original thought was, why isn't there a way for editors to view all recent edits made? (Sometimes I go through NTC, edit 8 of 20 nodes or so, come back the next day, and wonder what happened to the rest :). I also realised that the edithistory page has been visible to non-editors for a while, yet no link existed for them to look at it.

Original notes:

# Current: Anyone can view the edithistory page (displaytype), for any
+ node
# (including wikis!)
# Only editors can view the actual edit page of any node (or gods)
#
# Should be: anyone can view the edithistory page for any node that th
+ey can
# read anyway
# Anyone can view the actual edit page for nodes they can view, except
+ when
# these are marked private
# Editors have a chance to mark edits as private, should only be used 
+for
# extreme cases such as removing credit card numbers/email addresses
# A edit marked as private automagically sets any previous edits to pr
+ivate.
# These edits are viewable in the edithistory page, but only editors c
+an view
# the actual contents.
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Comments?

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