Forum:Patrolled Edits
As you all know we had a vote and magically we now have patrolled edits. If you have Rollback this applies to YOU.
Check out THIS and this for more information.
If you have been grated Rollback you will have noticed the red ! which appears next to some edits on Special:RecentChanges. If you have rollback that means that YOU are allowed to patrol edits. It's not just something which admins can do. Anyone with rollback is allowed to do this, and we want you to help do it!
Anyway Patrolled edits are awesome. Using this system it should be possible for us to be sure that we have checked every edit on RC. After Wikia turned it on for us on the 24th or 25th (whenever it was) we managed to check everything for a while. A few users and myself (especially PuppyOnTheRadio) helped to clear out a big gap going back in the log so it was obvious where we were up to, but now we appear to have forgotten all about it already, and let it slip. This is bad.
Using patrolled edits takes a bit of getting used to. Using Rollback automatically marks all the rolled back changes as marked, but there is currently no way (that I know of) to automatically mark all non patrolled pages as patrolled. If anyone could knock up some .js which could do that it would be very useful. Anyway... It's basically a question of clicking the "mark as patrolled" button when you have checked each edit in turn. If you try it, you will see that clicking the "mark as patrolled" button makes the red ! vanish from RC.
If you have a go at doing this you will understand why I'm asking someone to write the .js above.
If you go to Special:Preferences and click "Under to Hood" there are some settings for Patrolled edits which allow you to configure default behaviour of RC. Also on Special:Recentchanges there are settings to Hide/show patrolled edits. Using a combination of these settings with "Show last 500 edits" and grouped / non-grouped recent changes and a web browser which supports tabs it's possible to quickly check lots of edits in very little time...
Don't think that by patrolling edits you are "approving" what is funny. Patrolled edits are there to help us catch vandalism. If it's not vandalism, and you don't want to undo, or rollback the edit then please mark it as "patrolled". If it's a new page (and you are not a sysop) leave the "patrolled edits" button alone unless you use ICU or QVFD in which case you have patrolled the page, and so you can click the button.
Oh, and while I'm ranting...
Can people PLEASE make more of an effort to use "Undo" rather than Rollback. Rollback should really only be used to revert vandalism. If it's not vandalism, but just an unfunny edit PLEASE try to use Undo with a comment explaining why you have reverted. I'm not saying never use rollback for sloppy edits, but try to consider how much effort the person who made that edit put into it. If they obviously put some effort in but it still sucks, then you should take the time to use Undo which allows you to give a reason WHY you are undoing. Undo with a comment is far less of a kick in the bollocks than rollback for whoever made the edit.
Remember your first edits...? Did you want them removed without any comment explaining why?
Using Undo does mean that you will have to manually click the "mark as patrolled" button, but that's a small price to pay for doing things better.
Looking at this we may need the ability to turn "Autopatrolled" edits on...
TLDNR version: We are not patrolling edits well enough. If you check an edit click the "marked as patrolled" button. Also try to use Undo with a comment rather than rollback if it's not a vandal or total retard. CHECK IT OUT! MrN 
09:36, May 2
- Sorry for whoever wrote the whole section, nice effort, but I only read the TL;DR section. That is very true, but we can't mark an article that had more than one edit as " patrolled". Or can we? Just tell me hw.
Mattsnow 11:42, May 2, 2012 (UTC)
- TSDNR (too short did not read). Oh, OK... Yes you can mark an article that had more than one edit as " patrolled". You just have to mark the edits one at a time currently. There is no point marking anything past the 25th as that's when we started. We need some .js. If we were on top of this (like we were for a while on the 25 and 26th) it would be no problem at all. MrN
11:49, May 2
- The feature needs to get smarter. There is no need to patrol either a superseded edit (provided you review the net change since your last visit) nor especially something that a registered user adds to a talk page. But I concur on undo-with-summary; the Rollback power is not a boon but something like administering a pistol-whipping (though sometimes that's the right thing to do). Spıke ¬ 11:13 9-May-12
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- The feature needs to get smarter. There is no need to patrol either a superseded edit (provided you review the net change since your last visit) nor especially something that a registered user adds to a talk page. But I concur on undo-with-summary; the Rollback power is not a boon but something like administering a pistol-whipping (though sometimes that's the right thing to do). Spıke ¬ 11:13 9-May-12
- TSDNR (too short did not read). Oh, OK... Yes you can mark an article that had more than one edit as " patrolled". You just have to mark the edits one at a time currently. There is no point marking anything past the 25th as that's when we started. We need some .js. If we were on top of this (like we were for a while on the 25 and 26th) it would be no problem at all. MrN
importScript( "User:Bizzeebeever/scripts/patrol.js" )
to your .js things get a little easier to manage. The .js is discussed here. It adds a button to RC which helps a lot. Thanks to BB for his efforts with this one... It takes a bit of getting used to, but with a combination of this and tabbed windows it's possible to check lots of edits quickly. We should be able to keep on top of this. Also ZB has now asked Wikia for an auto-patrolled user group which will be great for those who know what they are doing, but just write and don't spend time on RC or want the hassle of being whined at by me about being lazy with rollback. MrN 12:11, May 9