HRWiki talk:Recent changes patrol

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How do you join? -- The Real Zajac 11:32, 3 May 2005 (PDT)

Just add your name to the list and start patrollin'. Thanks for your interest. — Joey (talk·edits) 18:42, 3 May 2005 (UTC)

I guess I already kind of do that... (Except for the marking pages as patrolled, I didn't know that.) What's the difference between just doing it and joining, except for that you HAVE to do it when you join? Kvb 20:41, 4 May 2005 (UTC)

There's not much difference, in all reality. We're simply trying to foster a feeling of belonging by forming these various committees. You're certainly free to patrol edits without adding your name to the list. — Joey (talk·edits) 01:01, 5 May 2005 (UTC)

Well, I added my name anyways. I don't really have a feeling of belonging yet, though. We'll see... Kvb 10:40, 6 May 2005 (UTC)

Contents 1 Patrol a troll 2 Marking new pages as patrolled 3 Is anyone else actually doing this? 4 Patrolling New Redirects 5 Exclamation Point

Patrol a troll

Do you mark an edit as patrolled if it's a trolling edit? --Gafaddict 23:28, 3 May 2005 (UTC)

No. Instead, copy the URL of the diff from your location bar and use that in your entry on the HRWiki:WikiTroll page. -- Tom 01:19, 4 May 2005 (UTC)

Why wouldn't it get marked as patrolled? "Patrolled" just means someone has seen the edit, it doesn't necessarily mean the edit was a good one. If I'm looking down the list and see an edit that isn't patrolled, then see that it was trolling, I'm likely to head over to the WikiTroll page myself and add the guy again. Doesn't it make sense to mark those so we don't duplicate our efforts? — Joey (talk·edits) 15:11, 4 May 2005 (UTC)

Yes, perfect sense. I just encountered a similar situation where someone had already reverted a bad edit. I needed to patrol both the bad edit, and the edit that reverted the bad edit. This way, neither show up in the hidepartolled display. -- Tom 15:16, 4 May 2005 (UTC)

Sorry, Tom, you lost me. Are you advocating marking all edits as patrolled, or do you think we should leave bad edits as unpatrolled? — Joey (talk·edits) 15:58, 4 May 2005 (UTC)

Whoops, sorry. Yeah, you're right. Everything should be marked patrolled. After one has dealt with the situation (reverting the page, adding the diff to the WikiTroll list) they should mark the edit as patrolled. -- Tom 16:16, 4 May 2005 (UTC)

Marking new pages as patrolled

I found a couple new pages that weren't patrolled. It took me a while to figure it out myself, but it's a different process to mark a new page patrolled. Since there is no "diff" link from recent changes, you instead click on the article name. At the bottom right corner of the article, there's a link that says "Mark this new article as patrolled". Hope this is helpful. — Joey (talk·edits) 15:59, 4 May 2005 (UTC)

And if it's a new page that then has an edit it's even more complicated - as far as I can tell no link lets you "Mark this article as patrolled" directly - you have to mark all the changes as patrolled so only the page creation remains, then hide patrolled edits. Then two bugs cancel each other out and you can do the procedure Joey says above on the page. The page displayed will appear to be the current revision, but clicking "Mark this article as patrolled" in the bottom right will mark the original page creation as patrolled. Convoluted? Yes. Works? Yes. --phlip ^T_C 15:37, 8 Aug 2005 (UTC)

Is anyone else actually doing this?

I just single-handedly patrolled over a thousand edits (about 4 days worth). Took me about 8 hours in between tech support calls (today was a slow day). The recent changes screen is BEAUTIFUL right now. Not a red exclamation point to be found. I don't want to have to do this again, so everyone try to stay on top of it from now on. Thanks. — Joey (talk·edits) 21:45, 12 May 2005 (UTC)

I've noticed that there's pages and pages of unpatrolled edits sometimes. Is there anyway to keep the Hide Patrolled option on? it's aggrivating to have to patroll an edit and then turn it back on every single time. mibluvr13 23:48, 12 May 2005 (UTC)

I do it everytime I see a red exclamation mark, but the past couple of days they have already been patrolled (by you, I'm guessing). →FireBird

I do it whenever I'm bored, which is a lot. --thatkidsam 19:33, 15 May 2005 (UTC)

I think our biggest challenge is going to be weekends and Mondays. I'm paging through the recent changes page this morning and, using some very rough calculations, I've counted approximately 2,800 edits. As I said, it took me eight hours to patrol a thousand last week. This is going to be a headache. [EDIT: LOL, I wasn't hiding the patrolled edits! My bad. There are really only about 600 unpatrolled edits from the weekend. That's not bad at all,

actually. We can probably knock these out this morning without breaking a sweat.] — Joey (talk·edits) 14:35, 16 May 2005 (UTC)

How important is it to patrol every edit? -- Joshua 14:43, 16 May 2005 (UTC)

I suppose it's not super-important, but if people like our committee members are willing to patrol, it helps keep the wiki machine well-oiled. Believe it or not, there are several minor (and maybe even a few major) vandalisms we miss each week. I've caught a few while patrolling that may have never been caught (until some unsuspecting user stumbled across them later). I've also found patrolling to be quite helpful in my welcoming committee duties. When you're paying attention to all the edits you're more likely to find new users. Patrolling isn't necessary, it's just another helpful check and balance in the wiki system. — Joey (talk·edits) 15:00, 16 May 2005 (UTC)

I just started doing it.--Bad Graphics Ghost

At least new pages should be patrolled. This doesn't take long and is very easy, but no one was doing this yet (see Special:Newpages). EDSMILDE

I just did about four hundred and there are at least five hundred more to go. I can't possibly be the only one on today willing to patrol edits, can I? And remember, just because you've viewed an edit, doesn't mean it's been marked as patrolled. You have to click "Mark as patrolled". ACupOfCoffee 04:12, 4 Oct 2005 (UTC)

I'm doing it unofficially right now. I can certainly start marking them as patrolled, but are there any guidelines? procedures? I assumed only admin-types were supposed to do it. --notstrongorbad 04:22, 4 Oct 2005 (UTC)

I have been finishing up about 40 or so right now. I don't think we have to go past that. Rogue Leader / (my talk) 04:23, 4 Oct 2005 (UTC)

I assume it wouldn't be appropriate to mark your own edits as patrolled? —notstrongorbad 03:57, 8 Oct 2005 (UTC)

Patrolling New Redirects

There's a few redirects that need to be patrolled. Everytime I click on the page it goes through the redirect and when I turn the redirect off (http://www.hrwiki.org/index.php?title=Tgs&redirect=no) there's no "patroll this page" link. It's driving me crazy! Can anyone figure it out? --mibluvr13 17:16, 27 May 2005 (UTC)

If you click on a link in Recent Changes that goes through a redirect, the "Mark this edit as patrolled" link should be at the bottom of the page that the link redirected to. Get it? —FireBird|Talk 17:25, 27 May 2005 (UTC)

Exclamation Point

What does the red exclamation point mean? Okay, call me stupid but I really don't know what it represents. --Happy 18:47, 14 Aug 2005 (EST)

The red exclamation point is an unpatrolled edit. If you see one, by all means patrol it. If you need further assistance, see the instructions at the top of HRWiki:Recent changes patrol. — It's dot com 23:00, 14 Aug 2005 (UTC)