Bharatpedia:Autopatrolled

Autopatrolled is a user right given to prolific creators of clean articles and pages in order to reduce the workload of the New Page Patrol process. Articles and pages created by autopatrolled editors are automatically marked as "reviewed" and "patrolled" in the system. The new page is still listed on new page lists and feeds, but is listed as if a new page patroller has already looked through it and manually marked it as legitimate or acceptable. Users with this right have no additional technical abilities; it does not change how an editor creates articles, nor does it change or "enhance" any aspect of the user experience, user interface, or the ability for an editor to create or modify pages. It only automates a process "behind the scenes" that is normally performed by other users manually.

{{User Bharatpedia/Autopatroller}} – a top icon template to indicate you have the autopatrolled user right. Adds a category to page automatically.

This user has Autopatroller rights in Bharatpedia.

Function

The differences with the article creation process between users with and without the autopatrolled user right is outlined and detailed below:

• Normal process: An editor without the autopatrolled user right creates a new page. The page will appear on the new pages list highlighted in yellow and not marked as "patrolled", and appear on the new pages feed and not marked as "reviewed". A patroller, as part of the New Page Patrol process, manually reviews the new page for issues (such as violations of Wikipedia's criteria for inclusion, copyright violations, biography of living persons violations, conflicts of interest concerns, and advertising). After this review is completed, the reviewer will mark the page as "reviewed" or "patrolled".
• Autopatrolled process: An editor with the autopatrolled user right creates a new page. The page will appear on the new pages list, but will be automatically marked as "patrolled" (not highlighted in yellow). As with the new pages list, it will also appear on the new pages feed and automatically marked as "reviewed". Since the new page has already been automatically marked as "patrolled" and "reviewed" by the MediaWiki software, a human patroller does not need to manually review it (but may freely do so if they decide or wish to).

Additionally:

• New articles are normally hidden from search engines until they are patrolled. But when an autopatrolled user creates an article it is immediately eligible for indexing by search engines.
• Non-article pages – for example templates, user essays, and Files – may also be patrolled though the mechanisms are not identical to articles.
• Autopatrolled was formerly referred to as autoreviewer, which is still the technical name of the user group.

Obtaining the right

You can request the right at Bharatpedia:Requests for permissions/Autopatrolled or from an administrator who is familiar with your work. Administrators may also assign the right to themselves. Autopatrolled is typically given to trusted editors who regularly create articles and demonstrate familiarity with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines, especially those on biographies of living persons, copyrights, verifiability and notability. A suggested standard is the prior creation of 20 valid articles, not including redirects or disambiguation pages, but the right is not normally given to very new editors regardless of the number of articles created.

• Autopatrolled does not give one the ability to mark pages as reviewed, or patrolled; one must apply for the new page reviewer right at PERM in order to do this.
• If you know an experienced editor with a reliable history of creating "clean" articles, feel free to request the right for them.
• Administrators may grant the user right to anyone at their discretion if they feel that the user's page creations are prolific; this reduces the workload of patrollers. In these cases, they are free to assign the user right to other editors (and themselves) without a formal request or discussion beforehand.
• Administrators may also decline to grant the right at their discretion, even if the numerical requirements are met, if they believe that a user's page creations could benefit from going through the new page patrol process.

There are currently 11 users with the autopatrolled right.