Some of you may have noticed, that in the Approval Nodelet and Status nodelets, theres now a "node history" link. This link makes (more) public a view of how a node has been changed by any janitors tinkering with it. Thus, even if said editor forgot/omitted to attach a note to the node saying what they did, you can check by looking at its history.

The history give a list of all edits by janitors that have been done to the node. Each edit can be viewed in detail, giving diffs between the current state and the state at the time it was edited.

The purpose of this is to make the janitorial work more transparent for the users, also to encourage the janitors to only edit for formatting, retitling and other approved edits.

For janitors who are curious as to what other janitors have been up to recently, there is now also a node containing the most recent 50 edits by any janitor to any node. You'll find it linked under "hysteries" on the editor's nodelet.

Any problems/suggestions for node history stuff, please msg me or reply to this node. Any complaints/suggestions about janitor activities, use the consideration system, or /msg janitors

Enjoy.

C.

PS: janitors, there is now a "make private" checkbox on the node edit page for janitors, ticking this box makes the change invisible for users, and should only be used in extreme cases like removing passwords/email addresses etc.

In reply to (Janitorial) node histories by castaway

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