Changes: Patrolled edits

Revision as of 15:30, 29 May 2020

Patrolled edits is a feature that allows specific users to mark items in recent changes as having been "patrolled" or "approved". By default patrolling is only available to wiki guardians and administrators.

This feature is useful when reviewing recent changes for undesirable edits, like spam and vandalism. This allows people (with the necessary permissions) to coordinate their patrolling activity, such that edits get checked over once, with less wasted effort (different people checking the same edit).

Any members of user groups with the autopatrol user right will have their edits automatically marked as patrolled. See Special:UserGroupRights for a list of all groups with this right.

Marking edits as patrolled

To mark an edit as patrolled:

Access Special:RecentChanges.
- Unpatrolled changes will be indicated with a red exclamation mark (!).
- If using the new, JS-based interface, you may additionally assign a highlight color to unpatrolled changes.
Click the diff link next to an edit.
To mark the edit as patrolled, click the Mark as patrolled link.

Hiding patrolled edits from recent changes

Patrolled edits can be hidden from recent changes by clicking the "Hide patrolled edits" link in recent changes options. If you use the new JS interface, check the "Unpatrolled" filter.

Customizing the marker

The formatting of the unpatrolled edit marker can be altered using CSS. The exclamation mark displayed on the recent changes log is styled using the span.unpatrolled class.

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-'''Patrolled edits''' is a feature which allows specific users to mark items in recent changes as having been "patrolled" or "approved". By default this is only available if your account is a member of either the Wiki Guardian or Administrator [[User groups and permissions|group]].
+'''Patrolled edits''' is a feature that allows specific users to mark items in recent changes as having been "patrolled" or "approved". By default patrolling is only available to [[wiki guardian]]s and [[administrator]]s.
-This feature is useful when reviewing recent changes for undesirable edits, link spam and vandalism. This allows people (with permission to do so) to coordinate their patrolling activity, such that edits get checked over once, with less wasted effort (different people checking the same edit).
+This feature is useful when reviewing recent changes for undesirable edits, like spam and vandalism. This allows people (with the necessary permissions) to coordinate their patrolling activity, such that edits get checked over once, with less wasted effort (different people checking the same edit).
-Any users that are in a user group with the <code>autopatrol</code> user right will have their edits automatically marked as patrolled. See [[Special:UserGroupRights]] for a list of all users with this right.
+Any members of user groups with the <code>autopatrol</code> user right will have their edits automatically marked as patrolled. See [[Special:UserGroupRights]] for a list of all groups with this right.
 == Marking edits as patrolled ==
-; To mark an edit as patrolled:
+'''To mark an edit as patrolled:'''
+# Access [[Special:RecentChanges]].
+#* Unpatrolled changes will be indicated with a red exclamation mark (<abbr title="This edit has not yet been patrolled" class="unpatrolled">!</abbr>).
-# Access [[Special:RecentChanges]]
+#* If using the new, JS-based interface, you may additionally assign a highlight color to unpatrolled changes.
-#: Changes which are not patrolled will be indicated with a red exclamation mark (<abbr title="This edit has not yet been patrolled" class="unpatrolled">!</abbr>)
-# Click the (diff) link next to an edit
+# Click the <code>{{int:diff}}</code> link next to an edit.
-# To mark the edit as patrolled, click the ''mark as patrolled'' link
+# To mark the edit as patrolled, click the <code>{{int:markaspatrolleddiff}}</code> link.
 == Hiding patrolled edits from recent changes ==
-Patrolled edits can be hidden from [[recent changes]] by clicking the "Hide patrolled edits" link in Recent changes options.
+Patrolled edits can be hidden from [[recent changes]] by clicking the "Hide patrolled edits" link in recent changes options. If you use the new JS interface, check the "Unpatrolled" filter.
 == Customizing the marker ==
-The formatting of the unpatrolled edit marker can be altered using CSS. The exclamation mark displayed on the Recent changes log is styled using the <code>span.unpatrolled</code> class.
+The formatting of the unpatrolled edit marker can be altered using CSS. The exclamation mark displayed on the recent changes log is styled using the <code>span.unpatrolled</code> class.
 == See also ==
-* [[mw:Help:Patrolling|General definition of RC Patrolling]]
+* [[mw:Help:Patrolling|General description of RC patrolling on MediaWiki.org]]
 [[Category:Wiki administration]]