Thread:Project:Support desk/Patrolling older articles/reply (3)

So the problem is that a patroller can only patrol revisions, which were created, after he got the patrol user right.

I see that wikivoyage and wikispecies are affected so I guess that most likely this is also an issue for other wikis.

Patrolling is part of the MediaWiki core and quickly skimming through the source code I have not found any "time restriction"...

Are you sure that this actually depends on the date on which the user got the patrol right? I mean this date is not stored in the user_groups table. You could only obtain it by doing some more complex queries to the log table, which most likely would have bad performance. I guess that this is not what is going wrong here...