Thread:Support/MediaWiki:Group-autopatrolled/en & MediaWiki:Group-autopatrolled-member/en/reply

The historical reason of this name is that the user is able to "self-patrol" their own edits. Originally, that wasn't automatic, you still had to flick "patrol" or select a checkbox in preferences. The secondary benefit is that we already have the term "patroller" (with its translations) and in many languages "auto-" is a known prefix, so "autopatroller" is potentially easier to translate.

I wouldn't change this without some more opinions, as I don't see a compelling reason to.