Make patrolled/unpatrolled status (more) visible in diffs and page history
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	Jun 27 2011, 5:26 PM

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Author: lecotegougdelaforce

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It is already possible to discriminate unpatrolled revisions from patrolled revisions in a few special pages, possibly depending on the wiki configuration. In particular, in WP:fr unpatrolled revisions show up in the user's watchlist and in Special:RecentChanges.

This feature is widely used in WP:fr. According to a quick poll (Wikipédia:Le_Bistro/27_juin_2011#Mini-sondage_du_jour.C2.A0:_affichage_des_modifications_non-lues), a few enhancements would be greatly welcome. In particular :

it would be great if when viewing diffs, the unpatrolled status of the previous diff was visible — this would allow the reviewer to look at the previous diff only if it has not already been patrolled, while currently the reviewer has to look at the previous diff to know if it has been patrolled ;
it would be nice also if unpatrolled revisions could show up in the page history as well — this would help reviewers to clean pages.

Thanks.

See also: T71061: Show patrol marks on Special:Contributions

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Reference: bz29611

	Subject	Repo	Branch	Lines +/-
	HistoryPager: Show unpatrolled "!" on history pages	mediawiki/core	master	+49 -4

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Open		None	T19237 Better integration of patrol feature (rc_patrolled, rc_bot in revision: rev_bot, rev_patrolled)
Open	Feature	None	T19433 add bot flag info to (rv/uc)prop=flags
Open	Feature	None	T13181 Mark bot edits in histories

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• bzimport raised the priority of this task from to Low.Nov 21 2014, 11:35 PM

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• bzimport created this task.Jun 27 2011, 5:26 PM

Nemo_bis renamed this task from Patrolled status in diffs and page history to Make patrolled/unpatrolled status (more) visible in diffs and page history.Feb 14 2016, 9:35 AM

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Nemo_bis updated the task description. (Show Details)Feb 14 2016, 9:35 AM

Nemo_bis mentioned this in T71061: Show patrol marks on Special:Contributions.

Several users of the Italian Wikipedia agree, rather uncontroversially, that the (un)patrolled status of a revision should stand out more in action=history and diffs, both to solicit more patrolling and to help those who are looking for revisions to (not) restore.
https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Bar/Discussioni/Contributi_discutibili,_come_gestirli#Discussione_sul_punto_1

Currently the (un)patrolled flag is visible only on RecentChanges and friends (Watchlist, NewPages).

Since T17936: New page's patrol button should always be visible was fixed, you can tell that a diff was not patrolled because you always see a "patrol" button, but there should be another graphical indication, ideally also for neighbouring diffs.
action=history has no indication at all, but some is needed for those who wish to clean the recent history of a page; currently one would have to open the logs for the the page only to get a general idea of which edits were patrolled.

In both cases, the visual indication should at a minimum be the usual red exclamation mark, but some ask for a yellow background instead.

How to implement the feature on history is not so obvious. Perhaps it's acceptable to join the revision and recentchanges tables for those users who have patrol permission; the gadget by @He7d3r was tested by @Rotpunkt who says it only fetches the latest 5000 RC entries, not the entire $wgRCMaxAge period for the page at hand.

Indeed I'm using the max available for a single API call, but I'm not doing any continuation for the recentchanges query:
https://github.com/he7d3r/mw-gadget-MarkUnpatrolledContribs/blob/master/src/MarkUnpatrolledContribs.js#L14

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Change 273608 had a related patch set uploaded (by Brian Wolff):
Show unpatrolled "!" on history pages

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/273608

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Ricordisamoa merged a task: T135612: Adding "not-patrolled" CSS to revision history.May 19 2016, 4:09 AM

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From T135612:

Hello. Could you, please, add the "not-patrolled" css class (or maybe different named for this case, with same properties, if you think it's better), so wiki sites could choose changing unpatrolled revisions style in pages history for users that are allowed to see those revisions? Thank you.

Showing unpatrolled "!" on history pages could be a good start, but we haven't even this feature. Thanks again.

matej_suchanek updated the task description. (Show Details)Oct 27 2016, 8:23 PM

matej_suchanek added a subtask: T19237: Better integration of patrol feature (rc_patrolled, rc_bot in revision: rev_bot, rev_patrolled).

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Quiddity mentioned this in T142782: Explore process for turning on RCPatrol for English and other relevant wikis.Mar 3 2017, 8:00 PM

He7d3r mentioned this in T25792: Add patrol options in history page.Sep 14 2017, 8:48 PM

Krinkle added a project: MediaWiki-Patrolling.Apr 17 2018, 12:34 AM

Aklapper added a project: MediaWiki-Page-history.Sep 20 2019, 7:44 PM

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