Heroes Wiki:Patrollers

Patrollers

Current Heroes Wiki patrollers:

• Heroe (Contact Heroe)
  • Heroe joined Heroes Wiki in October 2006 and was added to the patrollers group in February 2008. Besides patrolling, Heroe likes Claire.
• Ice Vision (Contact Ice Vision)
  • Ice Vision joined Heroes Wiki in January 2007 and was added to the patrollers group in February 2008.
• Level (Contact Level)
  • Level joined Heroes Wiki in November 2006 and was added to the patrollers group in February 2008. Besides patrolling, Level likes making lists and tables.
• Lulu (Contact Lulu)
  • Lulu joined Heroes Wiki in October 2007 and was added to the patrollers group in February 2008.
• MiamiVolts (Contact MiamiVolts)
  • MiamiVolts joined Heroes Wiki in March 2007 and was added to the patrollers group in February 2008. Besides patrolling, MiamiVolts is interested in Wiki template programming, the naming of new abilities, and theory discussion.
• Ohmyn0 (Contact Ohmyn0)
  • Ohmyn0 joined Heroes Wiki in November 2006 and was added to the patrollers group in February 2008.

Responsibilities

Patrollers are users who have been granted the specific ability to patrol edits. Patrolling edits helps ensure that each edit is reviewed by at least one person for any obvious mistakes. Selection of patrollers is dependent upon an administrator's view of a person's skill in distinguishing between edits that are appropriate and those that are not (e.g. info is misplaced or doesn't follow the style guidelines, etc.) and how the person typically handles the latter type of edit.

Guidelines

• Administrators' edits are automatically patrolled. Patrollers' edits are not automatically patrolled and individual patrollers cannot patrol their own edits.
• If an edit was incorrect and not subsequently corrected, then patrollers should not mark the edit as patrolled; once the patroller or another editor fixes the erroneous edit(s), then it can be patrolled. This way, incorrect edits will get the attention of multiple patrollers or administrators so it's more likely to be fixed.
• If a patroller has doubts whether an edit is correct or not, he is encouraged to skip marking it as patrolled. This way the edit in question is more likely to be examined by another patroller or administrator who may be more certain whether the edit is correct or not.

Tips

• In the list of recent changes, red exclamation marks (!) represent edits which have not yet been patrolled. Clicking on the "Hide patrolled edits" link will show only unpatrolled edits. To patrol an edit, click the "diff" or "last" link if the edit was for an existing article. On the diff page, click the link for [Mark as patrolled]. If the edit was creating a new page, there will not be a "diff" link; instead, click on the name of the article and the [Mark as patrolled] link will be on the bottom right. For redirect pages, the [Mark as patrolled] link often appears on the article being redirected to and not the redirect page itself.
• For Firefox users, Alt+Shift+P is a quick shortcut for patrolling on "diff" pages.
• For users with tabbed browsers, opening "diff" pages in multiple tabs is another quick way to patrol numerous pages. A patroller can easily navigate from tab to tab and patrol along the way (Ctrl+Tab, Alt+Shift+P, Ctrl+Tab, Alt+Shift+P, etc.).
• In Internet Explorer, Firefox and other browsers, shift-clicking the [Mark as patrolled] link will open the patrolled confirmation in a separate window. Holding down both ctrl and shift when clicking or middle-click opens the patrolled confirmation in a new tab instead of a separate window in Firefox and other tabbed browsers. This is handy for patrolling through several edits using "diff".