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<translate><!--T:5--> '''Deferred changes''' is a way to mark for review and if necessary delay the visibility of edits identified as suspicious by an automated process until they have been manually reviewed.</translate>

== What it means for an edit to be deferred ==
There are two types of deferrals, in both cases the edit is queued for review:
* If passive, the revision displayed to readers is still the latest revision as usual.
* If active, the immediately preceding revision (the same revision that [[Special:MyLanguage/Manual:Rollback|rollback]] reverts to) is displayed to readers.
If you have been [[Help:Notifications|notified]], then the deferral was active.

== When is an edit deferred ==
An edit is deferred for review when it matches an [[Special:MyLanguage/Extension:AbuseFilter|abuse filter]] set to defer, when requested by a bot via the [[Special:MyLanguage/API:Main page|API]], or when it is considered highly damaging by {{ll|ORES}}. When an edit is deferred, all prior uninterrupted edits by the same user to the page are deferred for review as well. 

== How to review deferred edits ==
All deferred edits appear at '''Special:PendingChanges''', which provides the option to list only those actively deferred (or from pending changes-protected pages, if pending changes is enabled), and can be reviewed by users with <code>review</code> permission. When the page has a single author, and the edits can therefore not be deferred, it is listed at '''Special:UnreviewedPages'''.

== How to enable this feature ==
The feature requires the [[Special:MyLanguage/Extension:FlaggedRevs|flagged revisions]] extension, it can be enabled by setting <code>$wgFlaggedRevsDeferral</code> to true in local settings, and can be used alongside its [[Help:Pending changes|protection feature]] (enabled via <code>$wgFlaggedRevsProtection</code>).

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