Streamlined editing workflow

[bwDraco]

This was one of the first ideas that came up while we were discussing this in Stack Exchange chat.

To speed up the editing workflow, I'd like to suggest a feature that allows the user to quickly edit a sequence of questions with a particular tag, one after another. A link on the tag's page, called something like "Batch Edit", would open the editor for the first question with that tag. When the edit is submitted, the system would automatically open the next question and queue the edit that was just submitted. The user would be able to do this until all questions with the tag have been edited. I'd suggest the following at the following of the page:

• A Save Edits button that submits and queues the current edit and proceeds to the next question, exiting to the tag page if there are no more questions to edit;
• a Save and Exit button that saves and queues the current edit, then returns to the tag page;
• a Skip button that proceeds to the next question, discarding any edits made; and
• a Cancel button that exits the editor and returns to the tag page.

Your thoughts?

[BobVul]

If this ever happens, it would be a very long-term todo, and possibly a different extension or project altogether. It depends on whether we're going for a simple edit-queuing extension, or a full-featured "edit centre" kind of thing.

I'm also a bit wary of doing too much to streamline editing: there's the possible side effect of encouraging users to just click through all of them instead of checking to be sure the edit is correct (and other corrections made to the post, where applicable, rather than just blind retagging). This might or might not be an issue... can't really be worse than the built-in review queues? But then they have audits.

This might be something to consider if we do @Fleex255's suggestion of a centralised queue and coordination between users.