Make the "show review history" mod-tool available on suggested edits for everyone (at least on own posts)

Question

As I previously noted,

While an approved edit can simply be checked in any post's edit history, the only ways to check rejected edits are either checking the suggester's suggestion history or one's own review history if one happened to review said edit.

As Gilles stated here,

in the mod menu under the post, select “show review history”. A review on a suggested edit on a post counts as a review on the post even if the suggested edit is rejected. This is a fairly recent feature, I think it was introduced in 2013 with little publicity.

i.e. there already exists a tool to show not only approved edits but also refused ones. And at least for one's own posts it would be adequate being able to re-view (or even re-review) them to make sure e.g. a "too radical" suggestion wasn't actually fixing a more or less severe oversight. edit2 Though there's probably no reason why this shouldn't be available for just anyone.

edit As Gilles said, the tool actually also shows all other review history items like low quality etc. I'm only requesting access to the suggested edit history. (Although as long as the rest doesn't expose too much user information it'd probably be less implementation work to use the tool as-is but only make it available on own posts unless one is a mod.)

Answer 1

After thinking about it a little, I think this would be a useful feature, but only in a narrow set of circumstances. UI-wise, the rejected edits should show up in the revision history, because suggested edits to an older revision would be confusing if shown against the current version. There could be a “show rejected edits” checkbox at the bottom of the revision history, which adds links to rejected edits in the right place in the history.

I don't see any point in restricting this, it can be public. After all the data does end up in the data explorer eventually. The review list moderator tools is restricted to moderators because it links to other review queues: first posts, close votes, etc. In fact that tool was added for moderation-related tasks related to the review queues other than suggested edits, such as “who let this spam through the late answers queue?”, or pushing a question out of the close queue after it has been edited. These queues are intended to show the review items somewhat randomly to users, and it is by design that there is no easy way to find the review item from the post. This logic doesn't apply to suggested edits: they're linked from the post when they're live, after all.

What bothers me about this feature is that it's a lot of code for a very narrow use case. I wouldn't want to have a new button under the post or to have all rejected edits show up in the revision history, that would be too disruptive, it's rare to want to see the rejected edits.

This could be implemented as a user script, as the information is accessible through the API.

Answer 2

As of today, you can find links to completed review tasks via the timeline for any post.

This works for all review types, not just suggested edits. However, they only become visible once the review has completed to avoid encouraging spoiling.

Credit to Adam Lear for the implementation here.