There's five different things at play here:

• Enable wgUseRCPatrol: This activates the system that shows [mark as patrolled] links to users who have the "patrol" user right (only sysops at the moment[1]).

• Grant autoconfirmed the "patrol" and "autopatrolled" right:

This will allow users with a 4-day old account to patrol edits. I highly recommend against this as this would allow a patient vandal to patrol bad edits, and since edits can't be unpatrolled and only 1 patrol action is required, it would basically allow the vandal to bypass patrol completely.

However including the following, this is less insane.

• Set wgAutoConfirmAge to 30 days:

This isn't explicitly mentioned here, but is implied and fundamental. The default on foundation wikis is 4 days. The project page[3] says "30 day old accounts". Right now this is not the case.

In summary, to do right now:

• Enable wgUseRCPatrol

Later:

• Either:
  • Set wgAutoConfirmAge to 30 days, and:
  • Grant autoconfirmed the "patrol" and "autopatrolled" right
• Or:
  • Create a "patroller" user group, grant it "patrol" and "autopatrolled".
  • Add "patroller" to list of groups sysops can grant
  • Wikivoyage admins can now give non-sysops the ability to help in patrol.
• Or:
  • Create a "patroller" user group, grant it "patrol" and "autopatrolled".
  • Create a new AutoPromote instance (besides "autoconfirmed") that is, unlike autoconfirmed, set to 30 days.

[1] http://en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Special:ListGroupRights
[2] http://en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Wikivoyage:Travellers%27_pub#Patrolling_Redux
[3] http://en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Wikivoyage:Recent_changes_patrol

peter wrote:

Thank you for clearing that up. Let's enable wgUseRCPatrol now, and I'll ask for opinions regarding the other options.

Enabled wgUseRCPatrol on enwikivoyage.

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Will be live shortly.