Featured articles get a lot more views than normal articles, everybody knows that. However, when you’ve got all of these people viewing your page, it’s easy for them to be vandalized. I’ve had a featured article vandalized and it took 3 hours for someone to rollback the edit, another one took 4 hours. So here’s my suggestion. When you click on the button to patrol recent changes, maybe you should be able to choose between featured articles and non-featured articles? This should help prevent vandalism to featured articles.
If you use Firefox, you can install the wikiHow Editor’s Toolbar ( http://www.wikihow.com/Use-the-wikiHow-Editor’s-Toolbar
) and I believe you get alerted when there’s an unpatrolled edit to a featured article.
And if you use Chrome, you can install the wikiHow Extension, which alerts you to every edit made to an FA and also to new talk page messages. https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/wikihow-editor-tool/anidieghjbnghobpjjahnibfgiopohce
Oh cool, I didn’t know about that. Thanks
Or, if you are on any browser, you can visit this link for all the unpatrolled edits on FAs: http://www.wikihow.com/index.php?title=Special:Recentchanges&hidepatrolled=1&hidemyself=1&featured=1
That’ll allow you to patrol them in the ‘old way’ (clicking the diff and patrolling them).
