Wikipedia:Autopatrolled
This is an information page. It describes the editing community's established practice on some aspect or aspects of Wikipedia's norms and customs. It is not one of Wikipedia's policies or guidelines, as it has not been thoroughly vetted by the community. |
| This page in a nutshell: The autopatrolled permission, granted to experienced users with a history of creating "clean" articles, automatically marks new pages created by these editors as "patrolled". This saves time downstream for new page patrollers. |
The autopatrolled (formerly autoreviewer, which is still the technical name of the user group) user right gives a user no additional technical abilities. It is given to prolific creators of clean articles; this reduces the New Page Patrol workload by removing articles these editors create from the stream of new articles designated for patrolling. It does not change how an editor creates articles in the first place (or indeed any aspect of the experience of article editing).
- Normal process: An editor without the autopatrolled right creates a page. The page is listed at Special:NewPagesFeed as "unreviewed" and highlighted at Special:NewPages in yellow. A human patroller, as part of the New Page Patrol process, reviews the article for issues such as violations of Wikipedia's criteria for inclusion, copyright violations, biography of living persons violations, conflicts of interest, and advertising. After this manual review the reviewer marks the page patrolled.
- Autopatrolled process: An editor with the autopatrolled right creates a page. The page is listed at Special:NewPages but marked as patrolled and not highlighted in yellow; the page is automatically listed at Special:NewPagesFeed as "reviewed".
- The above applies to creation of non-article pages as well – for example templates or user essays – as well as Files.
- New articles are normally noindexed (hidden from search engines) until they are patrolled. But when an autopatrolled user creates an article it is automatically marked as patrolled, and thus is immediately eligible for indexing by search engines.
Obtaining the right
Administrators automatically receive this right. Non-administrators can request it at Wikipedia:Requests for permissions/Autopatrolled or from an admin who is familiar with their work. It is typically given to trusted users who regularly create articles and demonstrate familiarity with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines, especially those on biographies of living persons, copyrights, verifiability and notability. A suggested standard is the prior creation of 25 valid articles, not including redirects or disambiguation pages, but the right is not normally given to very new editors regardless of the number of articles created.
- The autopatrolled right does not give one the ability to mark pages as reviewed, or patrolled; one must apply for the new page reviewer right at PERM in order to do this (though in practice the qualifications are similar).
- If you know an experienced editor with a reliable history of creating "clean" articles, feel free to request the right for them.
- Administrators may decline to grant the right at their discretion, even if the numerical requirements are met, if they believe that a user's page creations could benefit from going through the new page patrol process.
The English Wikipedia has 3,904 users with the autopatrolled right explicitly granted, and a total of 5,104 users with the permission (the difference is made up of administrators, who automatically have this right).
See also
- JVbot with its patrol whitelist was the predecessor to this system, before the functionality was built into the MediaWiki software.
- The Village Pump discussion that led to the creation of this usergroup.
- Wikipedia:Requests for permissions/Autopatrolled – the place to request Autopatrolled rights for yourself or anyone else.
- {{Autopatrolled topicon}} – a top icon template to indicate you have the autopatrolled user right.
- {{User wikipedia/Autopatrolled}} – a userbox template to indicate you have the autopatrolled user right.
- Wikipedia:Database reports/Editors eligible for Autopatrol privilege – a monthly generated database report that lists users that may be eligible for the autopatrolled user right. (Replaces DBQ-87[dead link] – a database query used to generate candidates for this privilege.)
- Wikipedia:New pages patrol/patrolled pages