A rough analysis of daily total edit counts for those wikis where we have qualitative data (Punjabi, Tamil, Ukrainian, Bengali) indicates that a key cut-off point is about 1000 daily total non-bot edits. On wikis with daily total edits above 1000, we find more evidence that patrollers need assistance in the form of tools, filters, watchlists or other ways to manage the flow of incoming edit. Under this number, and a wiki with the average number of monthly active admins (10) plus some number of active patrollers seem to generally be able to keep up with the flow of edits.

Previous work on patrollers, primarily through previous work for Moderator Tools in 2022 and Patrolling on Wikipedia, we know we have identified these broad types of content moderation queue:

New project for close-out.

Elaboration on the patrol permission (source) - this seems pretty tied to the concept of marking new pages as having undergone review, either via Special:RecentChanges or Special:NewPages. The permission allows a user to mark a page as "patrolled". (Contrast autopatrol, which automatically marks all edits made by that user as patrolled.)

In T297961#7578116, @Prtksxna wrote:

In T297961#7578029, @STran wrote:

I skimmed the csv and it can be a combination of many. One notably had four associated with it: is_anonymous,is_anonymous_vpn, is_hosting_provider, is_public_proxy

@cwylo @STran do these values logically make sense, as in can IPs be VPN, Hosting provider and a Public Proxy at the same time?

In T271671#6734980, @Prtksxna wrote:

@cwylo based on the interviews you conducted, do you think these value/color combinations make sense?

The completed public writeup can be found here: Patroller Use of IPs

To clarify, "checkuser requests" in this ticket refers to use of the CheckUser extension, not requests from administrators asking checkusers to use the extension.

In T251797#6106849, @jwang wrote:

@cwylo, can you clarify what are advanced permissions?

I'd suggest eswiki, potentially zhwiki as a known outlier that relies entirely on steward CU work (but is of a comparable size to wikis with medium-sized local CU groups).