Help talk:Patrolled edits

no info in user preferences?
the page says, there is a user pref. for auto-patrolling - however, I couldn't find that and in the referred help page is no hint neither... what did I miss?
 * It's only available in versions 1.6 through 1.8, according to the article. It is a little unclear about this, though. I'll fix that.

ambiguous
After reading this page, I am not sure what the purpose of the patrol function is? What does an un-patrolled article look like? What is the difference between a patrolled and unpatrolled article? I think it would be nice if an article marked patrolled wiped out edit history from the database to save space. Please describe what exactly this patrol feature entails..

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Would it be possible to use this to make it so that sysops have to approve edits before they're published? --Scott 14:19, 18 July 2006 (UTC)

Second the Notion
I would like to see the option in patrolled edits to go through a reviewer or moderator for approval before they go live. Is there a plug-in or a code snippet that would make this easy?


 * Doesn't this make it kind of pointless to use a wiki software. If every comment must be moderated what advantage does the wiki-format have over traditional software. The 'everyone can see their changes immediately' style is what drives wiki's and makes them effective. 80.5.107.76 20:33, 9 September 2006 (UTC)


 * I am looking for the same feature. It is mostly because the wiki is internal, and the namespaces have certain permissions and also have custom groups. We would like to approve 'cross-posts' across namespaces/groups. -JS

Notification of Patrolled/Unpatrolled?
Is there any way to make the Patrolled/Unpatrolled status of a page visible on that page? I ask because my employer is wanting a "Moderated" wiki (like mentioned above, all edits are pending until approved) and it seems like I may be ablel to make the Patrol function acceptable if pages that have not been patrolled show some visible disclaimer.

Customization
The info in the "Customization" isn't aimed at end-users and should be moved to Manual:, shouldn't it? Bradleyb 20:25, 13 December 2006 (UTC)
 * I think the part on the user option is OK; the rest should probably go. -Steve Sanbeg 21:22, 13 December 2006 (UTC)

Wut
What exactly does marking something as patrolled do? I did it once, and nothing happened except it said something like "this article is patrolled." What the hell does it do? Is it the same as Special:Watchlist or something? All it does is make pages in Special:Recentchanges not have a red exclamation mark? Seems kinda pointless…

Patrolling
New patrol log is a good idea. It improves credibility of the article, also checks the (in)activity of admins. But I feels two things are not that much necessary:
 * After clicking the link to patrol, it redirects to some other pages showing that page is patrolled, I feel it is better to go to the original page without the link to patrol.
 * Even after an admins edit the page remains unpatrolled. Its also hard to digest.

Thank you --Praveenp 03:36, 3 December 2007 (UTC)