Tags

This page lists the tags that the software may mark an edit with, and their meaning.

Tag name	Appearance on change lists	Full description of meaning	Source	Active?	Tagged changes
`visualeditor-wikitext`	Source edit	Edit made using the source mode of the visual editor	Defined by the software	Yes	7,030 changes
`sourceedit`	sourceedit		No longer in use	No	6,090 changes
`visualeditor`	Visual edit	Edit made using the visual editor	Defined by the software	Yes	4,600 changes
`apiedit`	apiedit		No longer in use	No	1,886 changes
`rte-source`	rte-source		No longer in use	No	1,600 changes
`categoryselect`	categoryselect		No longer in use	No	994 changes
`mobile edit`	Mobile edit	Edit made from mobile (web or app)	Defined by the software	Yes	670 changes
`mobile web edit`	Mobile web edit	Edit made from mobile website	Defined by the software	Yes	669 changes
`rte-wysiwyg`	rte-wysiwyg		No longer in use	No	663 changes
`wikieditor`	(hidden)	Edit made using WikiEditor (2010 wikitext editor)	Defined by the software	Yes	347 changes
`mw-reverted`	Reverted	Edits that were later reverted by a different edit	Defined by the software	Yes	241 changes
`rollback`	rollback		No longer in use	No	164 changes
`mobileedit`	mobileedit		No longer in use	No	155 changes
`mw-undo`	Undo	Edits that undo previous edits using the undo link	Defined by the software	Yes	145 changes
`mobile-edit`	Mobile edit	Edit made from mobile (web or app)	No longer in use	No	126 changes
`mw-new-redirect`	New redirect	Edits that create a new redirect or change a page to a redirect	Defined by the software	Yes	116 changes
`mw-rollback`	Rollback	Edits that roll back previous edits using the rollback link	Defined by the software	Yes	86 changes
`mw-manual-revert`	Manual revert	Edits that manually restore the page to an exact previous state	Defined by the software	Yes	59 changes
`advanced mobile edit`	Advanced mobile edit	Edit made by user with Advanced mode	Defined by the software	Yes	25 changes
`mw-changed-redirect-target`	Redirect target changed	Edits that change the target of a redirect	Defined by the software	Yes	24 changes
`mw-replace`	Replaced	Edits that remove more than 90% of the content of a page	Defined by the software	Yes	21 changes
`mw-blank`	Blanking	Edits that blank a page	Defined by the software	Yes	16 changes
`visualeditor-switched`	Visual edit: Switched	User started to edit using the visual editor, then changed to the wikitext editor.	Defined by the software	Yes	5 changes
`gallery`	gallery		No longer in use	No	5 changes
`visualeditor-needcheck`	Visual edit: Check	Edit made using the visual editor where the system detected the wikitext possibly having unintended changes.	Defined by the software	Yes	4 changes
`20210628192415`	20210628192415		No longer in use	No	1 change
`tor`	Made through Tor	If this tag is set, an edit was made from a Tor exit node.	No longer in use	No	1 change
`mw-contentmodelchange`	content model change	Edits that change the content model of a page	Defined by the software	Yes	0 changes
`mw-removed-redirect`	Removed redirect	Edits that change an existing redirect to a non-redirect	Defined by the software	Yes	0 changes
`mw-server-side-upload`	Server-side upload	Media files that were uploaded via a maintenance script	Defined by the software	Yes	0 changes
`Nuke`	Nuke		Defined by the software	Yes	0 changes
`disambiguator-link-added`	Disambiguation links	Edits that add links to disambiguation pages	Defined by the software	Yes	0 changes
`editcheck-references`	(hidden)	EditCheck thinks a reference might have been needed	Defined by the software	Yes	0 changes
`editcheck-references-activated`	Edit Check (references) activated	EditCheck thinks a reference might have been needed, and the UI was shown	Defined by the software	Yes	0 changes
`editcheck-newcontent`	(hidden)	EditCheck thinks new content was added to the page	Defined by the software	Yes	0 changes
`editcheck-newreference`	(hidden)	A reference was added to the page	Defined by the software	Yes	0 changes
`editcheck-reference-decline-common-knowledge`	Edit Check (references) declined (common knowledge)	EditCheck reference was declined as common knowledge	Defined by the software	Yes	0 changes
`editcheck-reference-decline-irrelevant`	Edit Check (references) declined (irrelevant)	EditCheck reference was declined as irrelevant	Defined by the software	Yes	0 changes
`editcheck-reference-decline-uncertain`	Edit Check (references) declined (uncertain)	EditCheck reference was declined as being uncertain	Defined by the software	Yes	0 changes
`editcheck-reference-decline-other`	Edit Check (references) declined (other)	EditCheck reference was declined for an unlisted reason	Defined by the software	Yes	0 changes
`abusefilter-condition-limit`	condition limit reached	Edits or other events that couldn't be checked by all active abuse filters (help).	Defined by the software	Yes	0 changes
`maps-visual-edit`	Visual map edit	Edit made with the visual editor provided by the Maps extension	Defined by the software	Yes	0 changes