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Split autopatrol user right to RCPatrol, NPPatrol and FilePatrol Open

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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 autopatrol by 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 autopatrol right, 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.

Assigned focus area

Unassigned.

Type of wish

System change

All projects

Affected users

Patrollers. May fit into Community Wishlist/Focus areas/Task prioritization. 

Phabricator tasks

T308153

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  • Created: 07:34, 25 February 2025 (UTC)
  • Last updated: 12:55, 12 March 2025 (UTC)
  • Author: Steven Sun (talk)
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