Topic on Project:Village Pump

As a new admin to my wiki site, I am failing to figure out how to enable a proper approval process.

I see that a few extensions are available, and Extension:FlaggedRevs seems the best suitable. However, its page has a warning advising against its usage, but does not provide an alternative choice. I also see a few others:

• Extension:Approved_Revs (seems to be incompatible with some extensions, as it is stated on their page)
• Extension:ContentStabilization (it produces some errors in the wgDebugLogFile, and on their pages it says that they use FlaggedRevs)

The main site, Wikipedia, also has Extension:FlaggedRevs installed as shown on their page: Special:Version.

So, what MediaWiki is using on their site? I would like to install and use an appropriate extension that will be eventually in use everywhere. Could you advise?

Thank you so much!

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This wiki does not use any of the aformentioned extensions. It just lets edits get published unapproved and relies on humans patrolling recent changes to revert those that shouldn't be made. You can see what extensions are installed on a given wiki at special:Version.

So, what would you recommend to use, the one which would likely be most popular in the future? Open source concept might be working fine for MediaWiki, because it is a special site, but I need some CMS.

Page https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Flagged_Revisions#Enabling claims that FlaggedRevs are abandoned by the developers, but page https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/q/project:mediawiki/extensions/FlaggedRevs shows recent activity up to today.

Was FlaggedRevs abandoned, but now revived? What other wiki sites most commonly use? What would you recommend?

This is not really the right place to ask.

Both flaggedrevs and approvedrevs are popular. ApprovedRevs is a bit simpler which some people like. FlaggedRevs is not really being actively developed anymore, but ocassional fixes are still made when issues pop up. Ultimately its up to you. Both are reasonable choices.

Check out Extension:Moderation