Help:Patrolled edits

Patrolled edits are a feature which allows specific users to mark items in recent changes as having been "patrolled" or "approved". By default this is only available to users who have sysop permissions.

This feature is useful when reviewing recent changes for undesirable edits, link spam and vandalism. 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).

Marking edits as patrolled

 * To mark an edit as patrolled:
 * 1) Access Special:RecentChanges
 * Changes which are not patrolled will be indicated with a red exclamation mark
 * 1) Click the (diff) link next to an edit
 * 2) To mark the edit as patrolled, click the mark as patrolled link

Hiding patrolled edits from recent changes
Patrolled edits can be hidden from recent changes by adding &hidepatrolled=1 to the URL in the following form: