Last modified: 2008-10-06 16:19:30 UTC
When tagging new pages with a CSD tag, on waiting for the page to refresh (I use Twinkle) the tag box appears but the blue link to 'report this page as patrolled' does not. If you then click back to New pages, the target page still appears in yellow as unpatrolled, and you have to open it again to tag it patrolled. Lots of people don't bother, meaning that many yellow pages are in fact patrolled. This rather defeats the purpose of the whole patrolled/unpatrolled marking!
IANAD, but this is more likely a bug in Twinkle, as to get the '[Mark this page as patrolled]' link to appear, you need to pass the revision id as the rcid parameter, when Twinkle refreshes the page, this parameter is cleared.
Indeed, when you edit a new page, you will always end up in a page which no longer has a 'report htis page as patrolled' link, which is normal. That link only appears when there is an 'rcid' given in the URL. I suppose Twinckle can be changed in a way that it would automatically load the page with appropriate RCID.
The revision patrolling code has been improved so that the "rcid" param is not necessary in order for the '[Mark this change as patrolled]' link to be displayed: http://en.labs.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template:User_Wikisource&curid=66377&diff=85564&oldid=85559 The page patrolling code could likewise display '[Mark this page as patrolled]' until the page has been marked as patrolled.
(In reply to comment #3) > The revision patrolling code has been improved so that the "rcid" param is not > necessary in order for the '[Mark this change as patrolled]' link to be > displayed: > > http://en.labs.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template:User_Wikisource&curid=66377&diff=85564&oldid=85559 > > The page patrolling code could likewise display '[Mark this page as patrolled]' > until the page has been marked as patrolled. > That's just flaggedrevs
This is a bug in (or a feature request for) Twinkle, not MediaWiki.
