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PendingChangesBot: Rules for approving edits (tracking ticket)
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Description

This is tracking ticket for task related approve / do-not approve filters

Rules for approval

Approve article edits if :

  • ... edit was made by autopatrolled or autoreviewed user
  • ... edit was made by bot
  • ... edit was made by former bot
  • ... edit was reverted and newer version is identical to already reviewed version
  • ... edit was revert to reviewed version
  • ... edit was patrolled
  • ... edit has low revertrisk score from API (and other similar edit filters)
  • ... edit was done to whitelisted articles
  • ... edit did not make substantial changes ( old test was if the all of the words changed were already used in the article )

Do not approve edit automatically if :

  • ... edit was done to article which is in ''important'' (ie. Featured articles, Good articles ... )
  • ... edit was done by editor who was blocked after the edit ( T406329 )
  • ... edit changed the existing article to redirect ( T406336 )
  • ... edit removed all categories from existing article (T406438)
  • ... in html rendered version there is text with CSS class=error and in old version did not have it. (ie broken wikicode test)
  • ... if the edit was previously approved, but approval was manually removed
  • ... if edit added words to to article which havent never used in this language version before. (ie. likely typos detection)

Missing rules (never implemented before in any form)

  • ... no content from the edit is in the latest version of the article

Event Timeline

Bugreporter2 renamed this task from Rules for approving the edits (ftracking ticket) to Rules for approving the edits (tracking ticket).Oct 4 2025, 12:40 AM
Bugreporter2 renamed this task from Rules for approving the edits (tracking ticket) to Rules for approving edits (tracking ticket).
Zache renamed this task from Rules for approving edits (tracking ticket) to PendingChangesBot: Rules for approving edits (tracking ticket).Oct 4 2025, 12:41 AM