Thread:Project:Support desk/Patrolling older articles/reply (6)

First, let me thank you for your time and willing to solve this.

At Wikispecies, Im the admin/crat with the oldest time, I belive I see all unpatrolled files, and can patrol them. The problem is, theres about 2239 not patrolled edits. I took the inititaive to ask Steinsplitter to use his bot on WS why we know know how much work we have...

So I inititiated to establsih patrollers user rights on WS, as well as inspiring admins to start patrol files. And here the problem arise, those apr 30 users, who has this user rights since between 23rd of Feb - until now, cant patrol all those old files. Obviously they can see that thay are unpatrolled, but when landing on the articles, or in diff mode, theres no [Mark to patrol] link tp press - they can help out.

On the sv voy I have admin user rights temporarily, (that wiki has been dead for over a year, but I have the ambition to rewake it) and when cleaning up, I noticed the same problem, I can only mark as patrolled the files that were created after I got the user right.

I guess it should be possible to patrol olf files on a wiki, but in those two cases it seems its not possible, for some reason.

I hope I was more clear this time. Ill try to get proper answers to your questions above, which need that I involve the users with fresh patrol rights.

At the bottom of my WS talk page you can read about the confusion we had, see the subheaders patrol rights, and especially the answer frpm user Hector Bottai

Once agin, thanks for your time.

Dan Koehl (talk) 23:21, 20 March 2015 (UTC)