Wikiversity:Vandalism
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In a Wiki, vandalism is a type of behavior that is inherently disruptive or destructive to the aims of the project. Typical types of vandalism include:
- Writing obscene or nonsense content on pages with the intent to disrupt
- Unjustifiedly removing significant quanitities of content from pages
- Moving pages to obscure or inappropriate titles
- Repeatedly replacing content in articles with clearly incorrect or misleading information
- Other types of vandalism
At Wikiversity, we consider vandalism no big deal. It's a nuisance that needs to be taken care of but it's not something excessive resources are devoted to. To that end, a few users watch the list of recent changes to look out for vandal edits. On Wikipedia, where vandalism is a much bigger issue and dealt differently, special programs and scripts are available to assist in finding and undoing vandal attacks.
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[edit] What can you do?
If you find a page vandalized, take a moment and revert the change. You can do that by clicking on the tab named "history", selecting the version just prior to the vandal attack, click on the "edit" tab and click on save. Preferably, you also indicate in your edit summary what the purpose of the edit was — commonly used summaries include "revert vandalism" or "rvv".
Additionally, you can use some of the programs listed below to assist you in dealing with vandalism:
- MWT - a very lightweight yet efficient vandal fighting tool written by w:User:Michael Billington. User:Draicone is a developer and project admin. This tool will soon be ported to work on Wikiversity.
- Join the #cvn-wv-en IRC channel; this channel has a reporting bot which flags likely vandalistic edits. Click here to get connected instantly!
If you find vandalism you can't deal with yourself or if the same user is repeatedly engaging in vandalism, you might want to leave a note at Wikiversity:Request custodian action. Custodians are users with special tools that enable them to block users and protect pages from editing. You can also find custodians in the Wikiversity chat room.
[edit] Guidelines
Guidelines are still being proposed. Please offer your opinion here.
- Vandalism should be reverted on sight. Remember that the definition of vandalism includes meaningless edits, page blanking and addition of profanity/blasphemy, however attacks against other editors are not dealt with under these guidelines
[edit] Warnings
See: Category:User warning templates
[edit] Blocked users
See: Category:User block templates
