Tags

This page lists the tags that the software may mark an edit or logged action with, and their meaning. For the purpose of maintenance and administration, tags are brief messages that MediaWiki automatically places next to certain edits (or logged actions). (Depending on the context, edits are sometimes called changes to a particular article or the contributions of a particular editor.) Edit tags are visible on histories, recent changes and certain special pages.
Administrators are able to perform different actions in respect to tags, including deleting some of them; please refer to the section on tag management in the documentation for indications.

More information

Edit tags can be used to detect potentially harmful edits or software bugs. Tags also are used to identify how someone made an edit, such as via mobile, VisualEditor, or GettingStarted. Edit filter managers, that is, users given access to the edit filters, can direct an edit filter to tag those edits that match the filter. Additionally, tags can mark edits which have been subsequently reverted. Without needing special access level rights, you can filter the lists of edits on the User contributions or Recent changes special pages by entering a tag in the Tag filter field. The list of established tags is at Special:Tags, and includes an interface for administrators to manage tags.

Use and formatting

For each tag, the respective appearance and description system messages can be accessed from Special:Tags and modified by administrators. The prefix Tag(s): is automatically appended by MediaWiki. The tag appearance specifies how they read in the changes list. The tag description is used only for information purposes at Special:Tags. For consistency, the template Template:Tl should be used for descriptions, with the edit filter(s) generating the tag specified if any. Tags should generally not be renamed from the edit filter interface when they have already been applied to edits, as this would create a new tag. So make sure to use the correct name from the start, or change the tag description itself. Currently, there's no way to reassign tags.

Tag management

Tags with fewer than 5000 hits and not defined by extensions can be deleted by administrators (if no delete links are visible, then all of the deletable tags have already been deleted). This action is irreversible, so caution is advised. When deleting a tag, the accompanying MediaWiki pages (tag description and tag name) should be deleted as well. It should be safe to delete tags that have not been used for several years or with few hits, although it is recommended to check the edit filter that added the tag to clarify its purpose and for an overview of the edits it was applied to. If an edit filter tag is disabled or even deleted, it still registers the tag so it must be removed from the edit filter first to become deletable. It is also possible to create and activate tags in preparation to bot tagging of edits, but tags cannot be added to revisions yet, so this functionality is currently of no use.

Tag name	Appearance on change lists	Full description of meaning	Source	Active?	Tagged changes
`wikieditor`	(hidden)	Edit made using WikiEditor (2010 wikitext editor)	Defined by an extension or edit filter	Yes	251 changes
`mw-new-redirect`	New redirect	Edits that create a new redirect or change a page to a redirect	Defined by an extension or edit filter	Yes	17 changes
`mw-blank`	Blanking	Edits that blank a page	Defined by an extension or edit filter	Yes	2 changes
`mw-removed-redirect`	Removed redirect	Edits that change an existing redirect to a non-redirect	Defined by an extension or edit filter	Yes	1 change
`mw-contentmodelchange`	content model change	Edits that change the content model of a page	Defined by an extension or edit filter	Yes	0 changes
`mw-changed-redirect-target`	Redirect target changed	Edits that change the target of a redirect	Defined by an extension or edit filter	Yes	0 changes
`mw-replace`	Replaced	Edits that remove more than 90% of the content of a page	Defined by an extension or edit filter	Yes	0 changes
`mw-rollback`	Rollback	Edits that roll back previous edits using the rollback link	Defined by an extension or edit filter	Yes	0 changes
`mw-undo`	Undo	Edits that undo previous edits using the undo link	Defined by an extension or edit filter	Yes	0 changes
`mw-manual-revert`	Manual revert	Edits that manually restore the page to an exact previous state	Defined by an extension or edit filter	Yes	0 changes
`mw-reverted`	Reverted	Edits that were later reverted by a different edit	Defined by an extension or edit filter	Yes	0 changes
`mw-server-side-upload`	Server-side upload	Media files that were uploaded via a maintenance script	Defined by an extension or edit filter	Yes	0 changes
`mobile edit`	(hidden)	Edit made from mobile (web or app)	Defined by an extension or edit filter	Yes	0 changes
`mobile web edit`	(hidden)	Edit made from mobile web site	Defined by an extension or edit filter	Yes	0 changes
`advanced mobile edit`	Advanced mobile edit	Edit made by user with Advanced mode	Defined by an extension or edit filter	Yes	0 changes
`visualeditor`	Visual edit	Edit made using the visual editor	Defined by an extension or edit filter	Yes	0 changes
`visualeditor-wikitext`	2017 source edit	Edit made using the 2017 wikitext editor	Defined by an extension or edit filter	Yes	0 changes
`visualeditor-needcheck`	Visual edit: Check	Edit made using the visual editor where the system detected the wikitext possibly having unintended changes.	Defined by an extension or edit filter	Yes	0 changes
`visualeditor-switched`	Visual edit: Switched	User started to edit using the visual editor, then changed to the wikitext editor.	Defined by an extension or edit filter	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 an extension or edit filter	Yes	0 changes