Help:Patrolled edit
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A new feature in MediaWiki 1.4 is Patrolled edits. After clicking 'diff' on a change in Special:Recentchanges, you may see a link at the bottom, similar to the one below. Patrolled edits are restricted to administrators in most Mediawiki projects.
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Patrolling edits is a way to indicate that the edit is beneficial, and to aid collaboration on filtering spam and vandalism. In the recent changes list, if you see an article which is good, you can mark it as "patrolled" so that other users know that it is good and do not necessarily have to re-check it.
Policies may vary among projects whether an article can be marked as patrolled if it is not obvious vandalism, or only when the correctness has been verified. For example, the English Wikipedia has recently implemented a different system of patrolling new pages and not each individual edit. See this page for more information.
In the Recent Changes, an unpatrolled edit looks like this:
- (diff) (hist) . . ! Help:Patrolled edit; 23:28 . . Astronouth7303 (Talk)
While a patrolled one would be like this:
- (diff) (hist) . . Help:Patrolled edit; 23:28 . . Astronouth7303 (Talk)
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Enabling
To enable patrolling, add this line to LocalSettings.php:
$wgUseRCPatrol = true;
Note that fresh installs of version 1.4 enable RC Patrol by default.
To enable new page patrol (implemented in 1.12), add this line to LocalSettings.php:
$wgUseNPPatrol = true;
Restricting patrolling access to sysops
If you don't want users without Administrator access to be able to mark edits as patrolled, add the following line to LocalSettings.php:
$wgOnlySysopsCanPatrol = true;
See also
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Wikipedia-specific help
All autoconfirmed users (accounts older than 4 days) are now technically permitted to mark edits as patrolled. See Wikipedia:New pages patrol/patrolled pages for more information.
This page is a copy of the master help page at Meta (for general help information all Wikimedia projects can use), with two Wikipedia-specific templates inserted. To update the main text, edit the master help page for all projects at m:Help:Patrolled edit. For Wikipedia-specific issues, use Template:Ph:Patrolled edit (the extra text at the bottom of this page) or Template:Phh:Patrolled edit for a Wikipedia-specific lead (text appears at the top of this page). You are welcome to replace the full wikitext of this page with that of the master page at Meta at any time. To view this page in other languages see the master page at Meta.
