Wikipedia:Autopatrolled

Autopatrolled is a user right given to prolific creators of clean articles and pages in order to reduce the workload of the new pages patrol process on Wikipedia. New articles and pages created by autopatrolled editors are still listed on new page lists and feeds, but are automatically marked as "reviewed" and "patrolled" in the system, and hence are listed as if a new page patroller has already looked through them and manually marked them as legitimate or acceptable. Users with this right have no additional technical abilities; it does not change how an editor creates articles, nor does it change or "enhance" any aspect of the user experience, user interface, or the ability for an editor to create or modify pages. It only automates a process "behind the scenes" that is normally performed by other users manually.

There are currently 3,559 autopatrolled users.

Function

The differences with the article creation process between users with and without the autopatrolled user right is outlined and detailed below:

Normal process:

  1. An editor without the autopatrolled user right creates a new article directly in the mainspace, or creates a page that gets moved to the mainspace from the draftspace or other location.
  2. The page will appear on the new pages list, where it will be highlighted in yellow and not marked as "patrolled". It will also appear on the new pages feed, where it is not marked as "reviewed". The new page is hidden from search engines until either 90 days elapse or it is marked as "patrolled" or "reviewed", whichever comes first.
  3. A new pages patroller manually reviews the new article in order to check for major problems. If none are found, the reviewer will then mark the page as "reviewed" or "patrolled" on their respective log or feed entry.

Autopatrolled process:

  1. An editor with the autopatrolled user right creates a new article directly in the mainspace, or creates a page that gets moved to the mainspace from the draftspace or other location.
  2. The page will appear on the new pages list, but will be automatically marked as "patrolled" (not highlighted in yellow). It will also appear on the new pages feed, where it is automatically marked as "reviewed". The new page is not hidden from search engines, and is automatically eligible for indexing.
  3. Since the new page has already been automatically marked as "patrolled" and "reviewed" by the MediaWiki software, a human patroller does not need to manually review it (but may do so if they wish).

Points to note

Obtaining the right

You can request the user right at Wikipedia:Requests for permissions/Autopatrolled or from any administrator who is familiar with your work. Administrators may also assign the right to themselves.

Guidelines for granting

Autopatrolled is typically given to trusted editors who regularly create articles.

Guidelines for revocation

If an autopatrolled user hasn't edited for three or more years, their right may be revoked.

The autopatrolled right may be removed from editors who violate core policies and guidelines, especially the guideline on large language models, or the policies on copyright, biographies of living persons, or paid editing.

Other guidelines

There are currently 3,559 users with the autopatrolled user right.

See also

Notes

  1. ↑ On the English Wikipedia, only the creation of new pages are patrolled – individual edits are not.
  2. 1 2 Historically, the autopatrolled flag was bundled with the administrator toolset, but this was removed from the toolset following a discussion in December 2021.

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