Members of the autopatrolled group, called autopatrollers, have the autopatrol user right, which is similar to the patrol right, in that it is a specific user right which involves marking an action as patrolled. The differences are:

• that autopatrollers do not have the ability to actively mark actions as patrolled; instead, only their own actions are automatically marked as patrolled.
• some gadgets allowing to make a great number of modifications are accessible to autopatrollers^[2] (for example: VisualFileChange).

This right is commonly granted to users who aren't necessarily involved in patrolling pages, edits or uploads, but who create a high level of quality pages or uploads that do not require patrolling by other users. This reduces the backlog of Newpage and Commons:Блок борьбы с вандализмом#Anonymous edits. This right is also granted to users who make a large amount of good edits that do not need to be patrolled, to reduce the clutter on Watchlists.

autopatrol originated as a pseudo-right which was automatically "used" when performing certain actions, without allowing any additional action. But despite maintaining its original name and purpose, autopatrol has also become an actual right on Wikimedia Commons. Since 2023, autopatrol is no longer just about patrolling; most accounts without this permission are not authorized to overwrite existing files (except some, including those they created themselves). For a list of the rights of the autopatrolled user group, see Commons:Requests for rights#Autopatrol. You may request autopatrol at Commons:Requests for rights#Autopatrol.

Users with the patrol user right should not be granted this right, as they already have it (it is redundant). Membership of the image-reviewer user group includes the patrol and autopatrol user rights.

• A log of all patrols can be seen at Special:Log/patrol. It includes usernames, articles, and the revision reviewed, and may be sorted by username or by article title.
• Pages created and modified by administrators, bots, and users with autopatrol right are automatically marked as "patrolled (automatic)".
• There is a "Hide patrolled edits" option on Special:NewPages so that you can ignore pages that have already been reviewed.
• Even when the last few hours or even days have all been patrolled, there is still a big backlog. Pages expire from the unpatrolled queue after 720 hours (30 days).
• For those who patrol regularly there are a couple of gadgets available to assist (e.g. Popups and RTRC).
• Users with the (auto)patrol right also gain the ability to batch-upload more files at once with Upload Wizard (mass-upload), are exempted from the abuse filter that prevents most users from uploading MP3 files on Commons and are able to move up to 32 pages per minute instead of 8.
• Users with the autopatrol right also gain the technical ability to overwrite files uploaded by other accounts. However, they are expected to abide by COM:OVERWRITE when doing so, and repeated failure to comply with COM:OVERWRITE may result in revocation of the autopatrol right.

There are three CSS classes related to patrolled edits:

1. The class for non-patrolled articles in NewPages is .not-patrolled, so colorblind users or users who prefer a different style can, for example, add .not-patrolled { border: 2px solid black } to their user CSS files.
2. The class for the exclamation mark is .unpatrolled, for example .unpatrolled { display:none } hides them from the RecentChanges and your watchlist.
3. The class for the "Mark this page as patrolled" link in the lower-right corner of each new page is .patrollink, you can style it in your user CSS file, for example: .patrollink { font: bold small sans-serif}

• Commons:Rollback – a similar user right to fight vandalism
• Special:Log/patrol – a log of any patrol
• Commons:Counter Vandalism Unit – more information on countervandalism and tools to make that easier