Hello all, The Mobile Apps team has recently released a new feature in the Android app to assist rollbackers in patrolling from their mobile device without leaving the Android app. Edit Patrol is a suggested edit that allows users with rollback rights to view the recent changes feed, with access to undo, rollback, thank, and post talk page messages.

You can learn more about the feature and its development on our project page https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Apps/Team/Android/Anti_Vandalism#. Throughout development, we have continued to incorporate feedback from members of the community. We prioritized collaboration with communities that have traditionally had difficulty utilizing existing tools, specifically editors using mobile devices.

After initial release, we heard requests to add access to user talk warning templates in the talk page message flow. Users are now able to search and use user talk warning templates as part of the tool. For languages that do not have user warning templates, the team reviewed messages across languages and created 10 example messages https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Apps/Team/Android/Anti_Vandalism/Saved_Messages that will be preloaded into the app.

The feature is currently available to users with rollback rights based on the feedback we heard during development. However, if specific wikis are interested in making this tool more widely available on their wiki, it can be changed on a per-wiki basis. Please reach out on the discussion page https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:Wikimedia_Apps/Team/Android/Anti_Vandalism .

Please check out this presentation https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Edit_Patrol_Presentation_%26_Demo.pdf with more information, and a demonstration https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f8/Edit_Patrol_Demo_-_Updated_April_29_2024.webm of the feature to learn more. If you have any questions or feedback, we welcome it on the project’s discussion page https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:Wikimedia_Apps/Team/Android/Anti_Vandalism.

Respectfully, *Amal Ramadan* (She\Her) Sr. Community Relations Specialist Wikimedia Foundation https://wikimediafoundation.org/