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
`sourceedit`	sourceedit		No longer in use	No	76,822 changes
`apiedit`	apiedit		No longer in use	No	34,285 changes
`visualeditor-wikitext`	2017 source edit	Edit made using the 2017 wikitext editor	Defined by the software	Yes	10,694 changes
`visualeditor`	Visual edit	Edit made using the visual editor	Defined by the software	Yes	9,808 changes
`rte-source`	rte-source		No longer in use	No	4,805 changes
`rollback`	rollback		No longer in use	No	3,132 changes
`rte-wysiwyg`	rte-wysiwyg		No longer in use	No	2,743 changes
`categoryselect`	categoryselect		No longer in use	No	1,998 changes
`mw-rollback`	Rollback	Edits that roll back previous edits using the rollback link	Defined by the software	Yes	446 changes
`gallery`	gallery		No longer in use	No	389 changes
`mobileedit`	mobileedit		No longer in use	No	234 changes
`mobile-edit`	Mobile edit	Edit made from mobile (web or app)	Defined by the software	Yes	124 changes
`mw-undo`	Undo	Edits that undo previous edits using the undo link	Defined by the software	Yes	111 changes
`tor`	Made through Tor	If this tag is set, an edit was made from a Tor exit node.	No longer in use	No	77 changes
`mw-new-redirect`	New redirect	Edits that create a new redirect or change a page to a redirect	Defined by the software	Yes	70 changes
`mw-blank`	Blanking	Edits that blank a page	Defined by the software	Yes	20 changes
`mw-replace`	Replaced	Edits that remove more than 90% of the content of a page	Defined by the software	Yes	20 changes
`mw-removed-redirect`	Removed redirect	Edits that change an existing redirect to a non-redirect	Defined by the software	Yes	14 changes
`mw-changed-redirect-target`	Redirect target changed	Edits that change the target of a redirect	Defined by the software	Yes	8 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	8 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	7 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