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{{PD Help Page}}
<span lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">'''Patrolled edits''' is a feature which allows certain users to mark [[Special:NewPages|new pages]] and items in [[Special:RecentChanges]] as "patrolled", meaning that at least a basic review was performed.</span> <span lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">A good edit might be marked as "patrolled", but a bad edit might also be marked as "patrolled", if it was reverted or its most obvious regressions were fixed.</span> <span lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">By default this is only available if you have the [[Special:MyLanguage/Help:Sysops and permissions|sysop permission]]; many wikis grant a <code>'patrol'</code> permission to groups of users.</span>

<span lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">This feature is useful when reviewing recent changes for undesirable edits, link spam and vandalism.</span>
<span lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">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).</span>

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This feature also allows setting trustworthy users' edits to be automatically patrolled, so that the people who review recent changes need not spend time doing unnecessary reviewing.
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== Marking edits as patrolled ==
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; <span lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">To mark an edit as patrolled:</span>

# <span lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">Access [[Special:RecentChanges]]</span>
#: <span lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">Changes which are not patrolled display with a red exclamation mark (<abbr title="{{int|Recentchanges-label-unpatrolled}}" class="unpatrolled">!</abbr>).</span>
# <span lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">Click the ([[Special:MyLanguage/Help:Diff|diff]]) link next to an edit.</span>
# <span lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">To mark the edit as patrolled, click the <code>{{int|Markaspatrolleddiff}}</code> link.</span>

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; To mark a new page as patrolled:
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# <span lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">Access [[Special:NewPages]]</span>
#: <span lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">New pages which are not patrolled display with a <span class="not-patrolled">yellow background</span>.</span>
# <span lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">To mark a new page as patrolled, visit it and click the {{button|{{int|markaspatrolledtext}}}} button near the bottom of the page.</span>

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; To mark a new file as patrolled:
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# <span lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">Access [[Special:NewFiles]]</span>
# <span lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">If you want to see only unpatrolled files, check "{{int|newimages-hidepatrolled}}"</span>
# <span lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">To mark a new file or new file version as patrolled, visit it and click the {{button|{{int|markaspatrolledtext-file}}}} button near the bottom of the file description.</span>

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=== Caveats ===
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* <span lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">There is currently [[phab:T22399|no method to undo the marking of an action as patrolled]].</span>

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== Hiding patrolled edits from recent changes ==
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Patrolled edits can be hidden from recent changes by adding <code>&hidepatrolled=1</code> to the URL in the following form:
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{{canonicalurl:{{#special:RecentChanges}}|hidepatrolled=1}}

<span lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">Note: this works only for users with the <code>patrol</code> or <code>patrolmarks</code> right.</span>
<span lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">This might change after {{task|T44246}} is solved in future.</span>

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== Customization ==
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=== Enabling/disabling ===
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{{MW 1.4|and later}}
<span lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">Patrolled edits are enabled by default.</span>
<span lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">To disable this, set <code>{{ll|Manual:$wgUseRCPatrol|$wgUseRCPatrol}}</code> in {{ll|Manual:Configuration settings|LocalSettings.php}} to <code>false</code>.</span>

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$wgUseRCPatrol = false;
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=== Permissions ===
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<span lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">Patrolled edits are enabled for sysops by default.</span>
<span lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">Use the <code>{{ll|Manual:$wgGroupPermissions|$wgGroupPermissions}}</code> configuration variable to assign this to new or existing user groups.</span>
<span lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">See {{ll|Manual:User rights management}}.</span>

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For instance, to create a ''patrollers'' group:
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<code>$wgGroupPermissions['patrollers']['patrol'] = true;</code>

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=== Automatic patrolling ===
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Edits by users with the "autopatrol" right, assigned only to sysops by default, are automatically marked patrolled.
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=== Marker ===
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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.
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Patrolling actions are listed in the ''Patrol log'' ([{{canonicalurl:Special:Log|type=patrol}} example]).
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== See also ==
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* {{ll|Help:Patrolling}} – <span lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">General definition of RC patrolling</span>
* {{ll|Manual:Patrolling}}
* {{ll|Project:Autopatrolled users}}
* {{ll|Extension:ApprovedRevs}}
* {{Ll|Extension:ContentStabilization}}
* {{Ll|Extension:Moderation}}

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