Help:Patrolled edits

Patrolled edits are 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 you have sysop permissions.

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).

Marking edits as patrolled

 * To mark an edit as patrolled


 * 1) Access Special:Recentchanges
 * Changes which are not patrolled will be indicated with a red exclamation mark
 * 1) Click the diff link next to an edit
 * 2) 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 adding "hidepatrolled=1" to url in the following form:

Enabling/disabling
Patrolled edits are enabled by default. To disable this, set $wgUseRCPatrol in LocalSettings.php to.

FORwiki
Patrolled edits are enabled for all users. To restrict this to sysops, set $wgOnlySysopsCanPatrol in LocalSettings.php to.

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.