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The criteria for this pseudoright is an established track record creating uncontroversial redirects (usually more than 100).
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they has over 400 in the queue. I just scrolled through a bunch, skipped across a few different days, and approved some, they seem to be pretty good across the board. Courtesy ping: Trong Dang Happy Editing--IAmChaos 02:06, 24 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Wikishovel(t·c·del·cross-wiki·SUL·edit counter·redirects created·logs(block • rights • moves)· rfar · spi)Wikishovel, I hope it's okay to nominate you without asking you first. Wikishovel has created tons of redirects and is clearly a highly experienced editor. I came across a redirect where they had reverted vandalism, which added it to the NPP queue. It would be nice if they could get this perm to save us from having to do that. Toadspike[Talk] 17:49, 7 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Oh, I'm silly, I was reviewing from the top of the queue (newest) again. This is the second time I've done this. Toadspike[Talk] 17:57, 7 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Actually I wasn't, it was just put at the top of the queue because it was an "old" redirect that was re-created. Out of curiosity, would DannyBot review a case like Chauhan of Banjara, where the redirect-autopatrolled user didn't create the redirect originally, but restored the most recent version of it? Toadspike[Talk] 18:00, 7 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Hm, I don't want to increase a backlog. Is there some way I can avoid adding redirects to the NPP queue when reverting vandalism? Apart from simply remembering to review it manually, that is. I can barely remember what day it is most of the time. Wikishovel (talk) 18:01, 7 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Nah it's just a problem we have to deal with unfortunately, unless you're able to mark the redirects as patrolled yourself. Hey man im josh (talk) 18:05, 7 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]
OK, not a problem, thanks. Oh just noticed, it's Friday. :-D Wikishovel (talk) 18:07, 7 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Per the closure of the requested move above, to match up with the new terminology. A pull request was opened to updated the code; pinging DannyS712. 🐶 EpicPupper(he/him | talk) 19:40, 23 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Please do NOT do this edit request (not marking as declined because I'm not an admin so I can't really respond to it) - this should be done at the same time that the bot is updated to change the code and I might not be around for it. Its also unrelated to the requested move above. When I know I'm going to be around, we can figure out how to change this without breaking the bot in the process. DannyS712 (talk) 22:00, 23 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Yep, this should be coordinated carefully with bot code changes. 🐶 EpicPupper(he/him | talk) 22:26, 23 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]
On hold deactivated as the immediate edit is not ready, pending when DannS712 can schedule changes - at which time this can be done. — xaosfluxTalk 22:31, 23 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Redirect autopatrol admins via bot instead of via list?[edit]
We recently added all admins that didn't have autopatrol to the the list in this diff. For me, it is making the page load slow, adds a little bit of clutter, and may also end up being a chore to maintain as the list gets out of sync with new admins and former admins. I wonder if it might be better to just add a check to the bot (the bot can grab a list of all sysops via SQL) instead of manually adding admins to this list. Thoughts? cc DannyS712. Thanks. –Novem Linguae (talk) 20:15, 3 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]
It's easy for me to say someone else doing work is a good idea, but yes I think this is a good idea. Best, Barkeep49 (talk) 20:19, 3 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]
@Barkeep49 @Novem Linguae @Hey man im josh No objections from me, but you'll need to get BAG approval if you want to always patrol redirects created by admins instead of just those on this list. Its been a while since I worked on the code for this but it should be fairly easy to add something to the handling of the list of users that get patrolled - I would probably use the API instead of SQL though. It'll be a while before I have time to do this though DannyS712 (talk) 12:20, 7 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]
@DannyS712. Okie dokie. To get the BAG process started, want me to file Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/DannyS712 bot III 73? –Novem Linguae (talk) 07:39, 8 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]
I was going to create that once we get a bit more participation in this discussion (this probably isn't the right place to have the discussion though - maybe Wikipedia talk:New pages patrol/Reviewers???) DannyS712 (talk) 17:58, 8 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]
The admins in charge of this page and who can edit through the full protection have added every admin to the list already, and no one has reverted or challenged, so in my opinion consensus has been met. If you'd like to seek a stronger consensus though I have no objection. –Novem Linguae (talk) 19:54, 8 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]
There is a difference between "lets add all the admins" and "lets always patrol redirects by admins with no way of removing them from the list" - the former is easily revertible and a one-time thing, the latter isn't, which is why I thought there should be more discussion to make this a general thing the bot does DannyS712 (talk) 18:53, 9 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]
As a note, 54 admins were on the list before the mass addition. Ideally though, yes, a bot would manage this task. The bot would be checking whether an admin has the autopatrol perm, so perhaps we could also use said bot to remove people on the list who obtain the autopatrol permission? This is all assuming someone is willing to put the time in create a bot to manage this. Hey man im josh (talk) 12:45, 4 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Actually, what I envision is Danny's existing redirect patrol bot (the bot that loads this page to see who is on the redirect autopatrol list before it proceeds to patrol redirects for people) also does an SQL query to see who all the enwiki sysops are, then merge the two data sets (SQL query of admins + the names on this page) together internally. So the idea is that we can take all admins off this page, keeping it smaller and less cluttered. This would not require a new bot that edits this page's wikicode. Hope that makes sense. –Novem Linguae (talk) 12:59, 4 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Yep, that absolutely makes sense and would help if others are experiencing slow loads on the full list. Hey man im josh (talk) 13:34, 4 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]