Appointing Autoreviewers

On EN wiki we have a flag for EN:WP:Autoreviewers. When users with this flag save a new article it bypasses the new page patrol as if they were an administrator. In the last few months I started looking for good candidates and appointing Autoreviewers in order to improve the new page patrol process; But I was surprised how many editors really appreciate it as a form of recognition of what they've been doing for years. I rather think of this as a direct form of community building.

People definitely appreciate being recognized. It's human nature. People want to be validated and respected for what they do.

I agree that strangely bureaucratic things like this can help people feel like they belong... whether they were intended to build up the community or not.

Funny,

I will never qualify as autoreviewer ;)

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I'll never qualify as a senior editor either. :)

I only qualify as a Wiki-outlander spending more time looking for references & citations in the web than actually editing the encyclopedia.

Never say never. :) For most experienced editors, these things would only take 2 weeks of effort to reach out and grab if they wanted them.

FWIW, in case of implementation of the FPPR proposal on enwiki, the usergroup of reviewers will bring this aspect of social recognition. But the important thing here is that it's not the primary objective of it, just a positive, and sometimes negative, side effect.