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
`apiedit`	apiedit		No longer in use	No	448,839 changes
`visualeditor`	Visual edit	Edit made using the visual editor	Defined by the software	Yes	341,905 changes
`categoryselect`	categoryselect		No longer in use	No	202,254 changes
`rte-wysiwyg`	rte-wysiwyg		No longer in use	No	153,247 changes
`sourceedit`	sourceedit		No longer in use	No	149,431 changes
`rte-source`	rte-source		No longer in use	No	74,418 changes
`visualeditor-wikitext`	2017 source edit	Edit made using the 2017 wikitext editor	Defined by the software	Yes	50,752 changes
`gallery`	gallery		No longer in use	No	15,115 changes
`mobileedit`	mobileedit		No longer in use	No	14,091 changes
`mw-undo`	Undo	Edits that undo previous edits using the undo link	Defined by the software	Yes	4,902 changes
`mobile-edit`	Mobile edit	Edit made from mobile (web or app)	Defined by the software	Yes	4,250 changes
`rollback`	rollback		No longer in use	No	3,155 changes
`mw-rollback`	Rollback	Edits that roll back previous edits using the rollback link	Defined by the software	Yes	666 changes
`mw-new-redirect`	New redirect	Edits that create a new redirect or change a page to a redirect	Defined by the software	Yes	326 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	120 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	84 changes
`mw-replace`	Replaced	Edits that remove more than 90% of the content of a page	Defined by the software	Yes	80 changes
`tor`	Made through Tor	If this tag is set, an edit was made from a Tor exit node.	No longer in use	No	74 changes
`mw-blank`	Blanking	Edits that blank a page	Defined by the software	Yes	65 changes
`Warning: New user creating page in another user's userspace`	Warning: New user creating page in another user's userspace		Defined by the software	Yes	37 changes
`mw-removed-redirect`	Removed redirect	Edits that change an existing redirect to a non-redirect	Defined by the software	Yes	13 changes
`mw-changed-redirect-target`	Redirect target changed	Edits that change the target of a redirect	Defined by the software	Yes	6 changes
`Warning: Blanking in progress`	Warning: Blanking in progress		Defined by the software	Yes	3 changes
`profanity`	profanity		Defined by the software	Yes	0 changes
`mw-contentmodelchange`	content model change	Edits that change the content model of a page	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