UESPWiki:Patrollers

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Patrollers are a subset of editors who regularly monitor the Recent Changes page to ensure that new edits meet the site's style guidelines. To help them work together on this task, patrollers are provided with a couple of special tools.

Although patrollers may be the editors who most actively monitor recent changes, all members of the community are welcome to participate. All editors, including first-time visitors to the site, are invited to help maintain the wiki's quality standards. If you notice a typo or broken link, please help us by editing the page and fixing it. If you notice Vandalism, please undo the edit and add a warning to the editor's talk page, if appropriate. The main tasks done by patrollers are available to all UESP editors; patrollers just have access to a couple of shortcuts.

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[edit] Current Patrollers

All administrators automatically have patroller privileges. In addition, the following editors are patrollers (an automatically-generated list is available from ListUsers):

[edit] Active/Semi-Active Patrollers

[edit] Inactive Patrollers

The following editors are patrollers who are either no longer active on the wiki or are no longer patrolling significantly:

[edit] Patroller Tools

The most integral part of patrolling are red exclamation points that are shown on the Recent Changes page and the patroller's watchlist, indicating that the associated edit has not yet been approved. These red exclamation points are only visible to patrollers, and their presence (or absence) has no general effect upon the page. If any patroller marks an edit as "patrolled", the exclamation point disappears for all patrollers.

In the current version of the the wiki software, all patrollers' edits are always marked as patrolled. All other new edits are automatically given a red exclamation point. There are only a very limited number of ways to pull up the option to mark the edit as patrolled:

  • From the Recent Changes page, or the patroller's Watchlist page, click the "(diff)" link next to an edit. On the page that comes up there will be a link "[Mark as patrolled]".
  • For new pages, there is no "(diff)" link; instead, just click on the page name. In this case, "[Mark as patrolled]" shows up in the bottom right corner of the page.
  • Use the Patrol special page, described below.

When a series of edits are made to a page, each one must be marked separately; simply marking the last edit will not clear all the previous edits. Also, editing the page yourself does not clear any previous edits.

The one special tool made available to patrollers is the Patrol special page, described at Mediawiki. This is a new tool, so we will all have to learn how to use it. Based on the description, it should:

  • When a patroller pulls up this page it will select an edit that needs to be reviewed. Only one patroller will be shown a given edit at a time, which will limit the possibility that two patrollers will try to fix the same page at the same time.
  • In the case of edits that should be undone, it provides a simple one-step interface to reverse the edit and mark it as patrolled. The reason for the reversal, as shown in the edit summary, can be selected from a list of standard messages or a custom message can be entered.

[edit] Criteria for "Patrolled" Edits

See UESPWiki:Patrollers/Patrolling Guidelines.

[edit] Becoming a Patroller

Nominations for patrollers are on the Nominations Subpage. There is nothing wrong with self nominations.

[edit] Nomination Guidelines

There are no truly hard and fast guidelines to nominating a patroller, but the community does look for certain things when deciding whether or not to accept the candidate. Here's a list of things that make up an unofficial criteria for patrollers.

  1. Editing Experience- As a patroller, you will be dealing with many different aspects of wiki markup. You need to know how to deal with headers, templates, and tables. A minimum of 100 edits will allow us to judge such things. Edits to your own User page, or User Talk page should not be counted as part of the 100.
  2. Time on the Site- The community needs to know that you'll be around for a while after becoming a patroller, so it is important for a candidate to have a period (about a week) of continuous activity before being nominated, or a long period (a year or more) of intermittent activity.
  3. Spelling and Grammar- As a patroller, you will be checking other people's edits for spelling and grammar mistakes, therefore you need to show this trait in your own edits. You need to adhere to the UESP Spelling page in order to properly patrol edits.
  4. Style- Being a patroller means that you must be able to follow the Style Guide. This means no first person within articles as well as a number of other things. Additions to the UESPwiki should be as readable as possible, and thus patrollers sometimes need to rephrase poorly written edits.
  5. Watch Recent Changes- As a patroller, you will have to watch the Recent Changes page. Doing so before becoming a patroller is advisable to get a feel for the job. Even if you are not a patroller, you can select the "Hide patrolled edits" options on Recent changes, allowing you to see which edits are still on the patrollers' "todo" list.
  6. No Recent Nomination- If a user has been nominated with their consent in the past three months, and that nomination was either rejected or withdrawn, they are not eligible to be nominated again.

[edit] Userbox

After being successfully nominated to become a Patroller, you can place the Patroller userbox on your user page:

Image:PatrollerIcon.jpg This user is a Recent Changes Patroller.

[edit] See Also

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