Is there a problem with the edit queues?
I'm raising this on our local Meta first, rather than the main Codidact Meta, because I don't yet have the Edit Posts ability so I can't tell what problems may exist. Hopefully some of you who have this ability will be able to confirm whether there are any bugs / feature requests that should be raised on Codidact Meta.
Do we need a "pending edits in other categories" indicator?
Looking at the Suggested Edits page for one category, it shows empty (correctly) but doesn't mention that there are other categories that have pending edits. Would editors find it useful to have an indication on an empty edit page of which other categories have pending edits?
Without the Edit Posts ability I can't tell if there is already some other indication of outstanding edits that editors can see that would make this suggestion redundant.
For me, I'd need to visit all 4 of the following pages before being sure there were no outstanding edits:
Are the year-old pending edits evidence of a problem?
(One of the old pending edits was resolved shortly after this Meta post appeared, so visibility might be a big part of the problem.)
The pages shown above have outstanding edits in the Sandbox and Meta categories. They claim to have been there for about a year.
Is this due to them not being visible to people who have the Edit Posts ability due to being in a different category, or due to us not having enough people with the Edit Posts ability, or is there some other problem?
What would be the preferred behaviour for pending edits that have not been either approved or rejected for some time? Should they be automatically rejected after some period (presumably less than a year)? Should they be automatically be flagged to moderators/staff?
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Addressing only the technical (platform) issues, and not community culture:
We need to make pending edits more visible in two ways. As you said, you have to go to each category to see what's waiting. But an even bigger problem is that even within the same category, nothing lights up to tell you there's stuff waiting: you have to proactively visit the edits page.
For a while I've been wanting to add a "new stuff waiting" indicator, like the silver circle you get for new posts in other categories. And I'd like to unify the pending-edits pages, or at least cross-link them and include that indicator about other categories. For example, if you visit the edits page on meta, you'd at least see that there are pending edits in the sandbox (if you can't actually see them from meta).
We have a GitHub issue on the roadmap to improve this. I'm not much of a developer and I don't know Ruby except by pattern-matching; I tried to add the silver dot but got stuck.
We're aware of the problem but haven't fixed it yet. (If anybody wants to take a stab at it, we'd be happy to have you!)
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