Alpine Linux:Patroller
The Patroller extension adds an enhanced recent changes patrol interface to MediaWiki. The interface filters incoming edits, prevents users from patrolling their own edits, and shares the workload between patrollers.
The extension adds a new special page; "Special:Patroller", accessible to members of the Administrators and/or Patrollers group(s).
Usage
Patrolling
When accessing Special:Patrol, a recent change will be selected based on certain criteria, and a diff. view generated.
You will be presented with three options:
- Endorse - accept the edit and mark it as patrolled
- Revert - reject the edit and undo the changes it makes
- Skip - ignore the edit
After selecting the operation to perform, another change will be produced for review.
Reverting
When reverting, a custom reason can be entered in the text field, or a pre-defined reason can be used. If no custom reason is provided, then the currently selected pre-defined reason is used as the edit summary for the corresponding reversion.
Notes
Workload sharing
The extension shares the patrol load by temporarily storing a key to the recent change in a memory-based table, alongside a timestamp recording the time of assignment. While a change has a corresponding row in this table, it is not presented for review.
Rows in the table are removed once they have expired.
Selection criteria
When selecting a change for review, the extension ensures that it meets the following criteria:
- Edit corresponds to the most recent change to a page
- Edit was not made by the user doing the patrolling
- Edit is not assigned to another user
- Edit was not made by a bot, and has not already been patrolled
Currently unpatrolled edits
Below is a list of outstanding edits that have yet to be patrolled. Due to workload sharing and selection criteria, you may not have access to patrol these yourself on the Special:Patroller page.
- 06:59, 3 November 2025 Using Pi-hole with Unbound (hist | edit) [3,283 bytes] Prabuanand (talk | contribs) (created page with instructions based on working pizero2W)
- 15:24, 31 October 2025 System Disk Mode (hist | edit) [7,903 bytes] Prabuanand (talk | contribs) (moved content from Setting up disks manually)
- 22:18, 28 October 2025 Cosmic (hist | edit) [1,941 bytes] Jay (talk | contribs) (First draft of cosmic desktop page)
- 04:10, 15 October 2025 Sway customization guide (hist | edit) [21,406 bytes] Prabuanand (talk | contribs) (moved the Sway#Quickstart - config File to it's own page as per Talk:Sway#Sway#Quickstart_-_config_File)
- 11:08, 3 October 2025 Include:Git configuration (hist | edit) [329 bytes] Prabuanand (talk | contribs) (moved the content from Development using git:Configuration)
- 08:57, 26 September 2025 Include:Arm support matrix (hist | edit) [1,068 bytes] Prabuanand (talk | contribs) (for testing) originally created as "Prabuanand/arm"
- 11:29, 21 September 2025 Using Distrobox For VR Gaming (hist | edit) [8,104 bytes] Lilith (talk | contribs) (A tutorial for setting up a container to play SteamVR games)
- 00:21, 21 September 2025 About-virtualization-simple (hist | edit) [4,056 bytes] Vkrishn (talk | contribs) (create page)
- 14:06, 1 September 2025 Fingerprint Authentication with swaylock (hist | edit) [3,791 bytes] Benaki (talk | contribs) (Fingerprint Authentication with swaylock)
- 20:01, 28 August 2025 Simple Walkthrough (hist | edit) [1,207 bytes] Vkrishn (talk | contribs) (Create page)
- 08:55, 28 August 2025 APKBUILD examples:Rust (hist | edit) [1,867 bytes] WhyNotHugo (talk | contribs) (Create page with minimal example)
- 15:24, 25 August 2025 LXC Alpinelinux Simple (hist | edit) [5,110 bytes] Vkrishn (talk | contribs) (LXC_Alpinelinux_Simple created)
- 15:22, 25 August 2025 Qemu-simple (hist | edit) [3,992 bytes] Vkrishn (talk | contribs) (Qemu simple walk-through)