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Does everyone know about the red exclamation marks in recent changes? It appears not, so let me explain. This is MediaWiki's "RC Patrol" feature. (This is only for logged in users) On the recent changes page, view and edit by clicking "(diff)" after the name of the edited article. after viewing the diff, click "[Mark as patrolled]", then "Return to Special:Recentchanges.". Notice that there is no longer a red exclamation mark next to the edit you just "patrolled". This tells other recent changes lurkers that somebody has looked that edit over, or "patrolled" it. When a wiki gets really busy, like the [[Homestar Runner Wiki]] tends to do on Monday mornings (because that's when homestarrunner.com is usually updated), this greatly helps reduce redundant efforts by the members of the "Recent Changes Committee". [[Wikipedia]] has this turned off (there are so many edits so quickly there that it would be pretty much impossible to keep up), so if most people aren't going to use it we could do that as well. Those exclamation marks were designed to be annoying — and they are, so I suggest we do one of the two pronto. —[[User:Sean Fennel|<span style="font-family: Kristen ITC, Times New Roman;">User:Sean Fennel</span>]][[User talk:Sean Fennel|<span style="font-family: Kristen ITC, Times New Roman;">@</span>]] 12:16, 3 Mar 2006 (EST) | Does everyone know about the red exclamation marks in recent changes? It appears not, so let me explain. This is MediaWiki's "RC Patrol" feature. (This is only for logged in users) On the recent changes page, view and edit by clicking "(diff)" after the name of the edited article. after viewing the diff, click "[Mark as patrolled]", then "Return to Special:Recentchanges.". Notice that there is no longer a red exclamation mark next to the edit you just "patrolled". This tells other recent changes lurkers that somebody has looked that edit over, or "patrolled" it. When a wiki gets really busy, like the [[Homestar Runner Wiki]] tends to do on Monday mornings (because that's when homestarrunner.com is usually updated), this greatly helps reduce redundant efforts by the members of the "Recent Changes Committee". [[Wikipedia]] has this turned off (there are so many edits so quickly there that it would be pretty much impossible to keep up), so if most people aren't going to use it we could do that as well. Those exclamation marks were designed to be annoying — and they are, so I suggest we do one of the two pronto. —[[User:Sean Fennel|<span style="font-family: Kristen ITC, Times New Roman;">User:Sean Fennel</span>]][[User talk:Sean Fennel|<span style="font-family: Kristen ITC, Times New Roman;">@</span>]] 12:16, 3 Mar 2006 (EST) | ||
: Sean, is there any way to "auto-patrol" admins or other trusted people? It's really a pain to have to patrol Mark and Ray's edits, for example. [[TedErnst]] | <small>[[User talk:TedErnst|talk]]</small> 13:57, 7 Mar 2006 (EST) | |||
== members == | == members == | ||