Help:Page History

Recent changes patrol is a feature that shows whether each edit has been checked to make sure it is a valid, good faith edit, and conforms to the policies of the wiki. It prevents a duplication of effort by clearly indicating which edits have and have not yet been checked by a member of the patrol.

Members of the patrol
When recent changes patrol is enabled, anyone with admin or content moderator rights is automatically part of the patrol (however, participation is optional).

How to patrol edits
Edits that have not been checked will be preceded by a red exclamation mark on the Recent changes page.


 * To patrol an edit, click through to the diff page to find the "[Mark as patrolled]" link, as shown here:

Patrolling isolated diffs in groups of edits
The diff among a group of edits (click triangle to expand the group) can be isolated by clicking the prev link to get to the diff page with "[Mark as patrolled]".

Patrolling a series of edits
The "[Mark as patrolled]" command only appears when displaying the difference between two pages. When more than one edit needs be checked, make a note of the timestamp of the first edit, then click on the "hist" link to display the history of the page.

After the Revision history is displayed, click on the timestamp immediately prior to the edit to be checked. Next, click on the "(diff)" link at the top of the page to the right of "Newer revision →". The differences will then be displayed with the "[Mark as patrolled]" command.

It is often helpful to divert the status message into a separate tab when clicking on "[Mark as patrolled]". This will allow you to click on "Newer edit →" to review the rest of the edits.