https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=17237
Summary: Better integration of patrol feature
Product: MediaWiki
Version: unspecified
Platform: All
OS/Version: All
Status: NEW
Severity: enhancement
Priority: Normal
Component: General/Unknown
AssignedTo: [email protected]
ReportedBy: [email protected]
Now that patrolling is part of MediaWiki core, it should really be better
integrated than it is. However it seems the database structure does not allow
it.
This creates usability issues. Unlike other actions such as editing, deleting
and moving, users can only patrol a page if they follow a link to it from the
new pages log. Bug 15936 asked for the links to always be visible, but was
reverted.
Querying patrol status is also difficult. It was added to the user
contributions API listing, but is currently producing a fatal error on
en.wikipedia and will likely be removed (bug 17215). So you can't ask which of
a user's contributions are un-patrolled, and other information like whether a
page's last edit is patrolled requires scraping the UI instead.
The situation is even worse for external tools. A revision or page can (thanks
to recent fixes) now be patrolled with reasonable ease if the client happened
to catch its entry in recent-changes or the IRC recent-changes feed. However it
is impossible to patrol a new page if all you know is its name, page id and/or
revision id. The IRC feed now (bug 16604) shows patrol log entries, but the
API's recent-changes query does not. There is an API query to retrieve rcid of
a page/edit from recent-changes, but it basically scans the whole
recent-changes table looking for it, which means if you happen to ask for one
that's near the back (or not present at all) of en.wikipedia's recent changes,
you get a query that takes several minutes to run.
To summarize, patrol status should be as easily manipulated as, say, whether a
revision is marked as minor, but isn't. I don't really have a clue how these
things work, but would it be better if patrol status was an attribute of
revisions rather than recent-changes?
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