Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-25523075-20160321194340/@comment-1757994-20160323194306

From the MediaWiki help page Patrolled edits is a feature which allows specific users to mark [revisions of] pages ... as "patrolled", meaning "approved"....

This feature is useful when reviewing recent changes for undesirable edits, link spam and vandalism. This allows people (with permission to do so) to coordinate their patrolling activity, such that edits get checked over once, with less wasted effort (different people checking the same edit).

This feature also allows setting trustworthy users' edits to be automatically patrolled, so that the people who review recent changes need not spend time to make unnecessary review.