Split autopatrol user right to RCPatrol, NPPatrol and FilePatrol (Community Wishlist/W362)
Copied from phab:T308153:
Initially MediaWiki only includes RCPatrol feature, which enables admins to mark revisions by others as "patrolled". Accordingly, admins and bots holds a user right called
autopatrolby default, this makes their edit no need to be reviewed as they are trusted users. Later, NPPatrol and FilePatrol were introduced (in phab:T3405 and phab:T11501), which support admins only to review newly create-pages/uploaded-files (rather than each revision).However, all three feature relies on a single
autopatrolright, which makes users difficult to have separate "trusted level" - like, we could automatically mark user Foo's edit as patrolled, but new pages created by Foo still needs manually review by admins.
Here is the full background of the request:
Chinese Wikipedia decided to enable Recent Changes Patrol in task T308976 to avoid different patrollers repeatedly reviewing the same article. However, this has sparked a huge controversy. According to the community discussion, many editors considered too much unpatrolled edits with red exclamation mark in recent changes as a bad user experience. So sysop disabled this in Common.css.
Too much unpatrolled edits make many patrollers unwilling to patrol. Some editors suggest trusted users should be auto-patrolled. There is already a user right 'autopatrol', but it is for new page auto-patrol. New page auto-patrol and recent changes auto-patrol are at different trust levels: New page auto-patrol requires an editor with the skill to write a decent Wikipedia article, but recent changes auto-patrol only means this editor is not vandalizing Wikipedia. For this reason, we need this new user right.
Unassigned
Patrollers. May fit into Community Wishlist/Focus areas/Task prioritization.
- Created: 07:34, 25 February 2025
- Last updated: 14:50, 19 October 2025
- Author: Steven Sun (talk)
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