This is an excellent tool for patrolling new uploads:
<http://toolserver.org/~para/Commons:Special:NewFiles>
Cary
Eusebius wrote:
Even without the patrolled edit thing, what we tried
to launch would
have been useful if people (admins) actually patrolling uploads had
used it.
Maybe it's a usability/interface issue of some kind, but it most
certainly is a kind of "sub-community building" issue.
"Patrolled uploads" would just be a nice bonus, maybe.
Regards,
Eusebius
Krinkle a écrit :
> Hi Eusebius,
>
> Ah, indeed. I was wondering why it listed so few new files (the link
> I gave earlier). Uploads do indeed not get listed there.
> Special:NewFiles does but doesn't allow patrolling, I understand your
> request now.
>
> That project definitely needs attention aswell.
> I'll see if I can find a way to "patrollise" that.
>
> --
> Greetings,
> Krinkle
>
> Op 8 apr 2010, om 17:08 heeft Eusebius het volgende geschreven:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Thanks for your link.
>>
>> Apparently, this only shows the page creations without upload, like
>> before a Flickr upload bot action. "Standard" uploads do not seem to
>> show.
>> Independently from this, even if a page could list all unpatrolled
>> uploads, I think it wouldn't be suitable, because (for the patrolled
>> edit be efficiently applied to recent uploads) a file upload should
>> be marked as patrolled/unpatrolled independently of the edits on the
>> file page. Indeed, recent edit patrollers will look for vandalism,
>> and recent uploads patrollers will look for copyright violations,
>> bad sources, missing permisions, etc. Depending on the experience
>> and "patrolling profile" of both kinds of patrollers, patrols can
>> have very different ("colliding") outcomes. This is why I suspect a
>> different notion could be justified for patrolled uploads.
>>
>> Here's what we tried to begin about recent uploads, for info:
>>
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Recent_uploads_patrol
>>
>> Regards,
>> Eusebius
>>
>> Krinkle a écrit :
>>> Hi Eusebius,
>>>
>>> There is actually something that is 99% like what you are describing:
>>>
>>>
http://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:NewPages&hidepat…
>>>
<http://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:NewPages&hidepatrolled=1&namespace=6>
>>> reversed:
http://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:NewPages&hidepat…
>>>
<http://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:NewPages&hidepatrolled=1&namespace=6&dir=prev>
>>>
>>> It's the NewPage-patrol, with the namespace filter set to
"File",
>>> which is pretty much always an upload.
>>>
>>> (though theoraticly there could be uploads without a page, and a
>>> page without an upload)
>>>
>>> Please note that, like any patrollable action the action leaves the
>>> unpatrolled queue automaticly after 720 hours (30 days).
>>> if you like, I could create a checklist-system for this aswell.
>>>
>>> --
>>> Greetings,
>>> Krinkle
>>>
>>> Op 8 apr 2010, om 16:38 heeft Eusebius het volgende geschreven:
>>>
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> Thanks for this initiative. On my side I've significantly failed
>>>> to build something for recent uploads patrolling.
>>>> Is there something like a patrolled upload on MediaWiki? Because
>>>> I've always found recent uploads more problematic than recent
>>>> edits, and being able to tell between patrolled and unpatrolled
>>>> uploads would be GREAT.
>>>>
>>>> Regards,
>>>> Eusebius
>>>>
>>>> Krinkle a écrit :
>>>>> Hi everybody.
>>>>>
>>>>> First of all, for those of you who haven't been here, or
didn't
>>>>> get the complete picture, here is a short summary of
>>>>> some recent events:
>>>>> * Last March, I started the Counter Vandalism Unit on Commons
>>>>>
<http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Counter_Vandalism_Unit>
>>>>> * Later that month, the edit-patrol function was enabled on
>>>>> Commons
>>>>>
<http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Village_pump/Archive/2010Mar#Marking_edits_as_patrolled>
>>>>> * After a Sitenotice, a few users have signed up to
>>>>> be "patrollers"; and with a small team of 3 to 4 regular
>>>>> patrollers, we keep a checklist of anonymous
>>>>> edits.
<http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/COM:ANO#Anonymous_edits>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> *The Problem *
>>>>>
>>>>> Vandalism on Commons is a big problem, which generates a large
>>>>> backlog. Commons is the primary media depository for most
>>>>> media used throughout Wikimedia. Vandalism on Commons therefore
>>>>> has a greater likelihood of affecting local projects.
>>>>> And, this also brings along the source of vandalism: Vandals.
>>>>> Local vandals are only a click away from Commons. Some don't
even
>>>>> realise they are no longer on the local wiki.
>>>>> Some, whether or not knowing they've been blocked on a local
>>>>> project, continue vandalising on Commons.
>>>>>
>>>>> So, having that said, we are looking for help !
>>>>> The most important areas, for now, are live watches on IRC or
>>>>> recent changes, and the Checklists mentioned above.
>>>>>
>>>>> *Live watch*
>>>>>
>>>>> For a long time Commons has it's own
>>>>> cvn-channel on Freenode: #cvn-commons
>>>>> <irc://irc.freenode.net/#cvn-commons>.
>>>>> Although there are about a dozen idling users and a bot at any
>>>>> one time, use of the channel for vandal-fighting is not as
>>>>> frequent as desired.
>>>>>
>>>>> Watching live is probably the easiest and most effective way to
>>>>> fight vandalism.
>>>>> Also, for those who don't have the time to patrol an entire
>>>>> daypart-checklist, this is a great way to contribute when they
>>>>> only have a spare few minutes. One can leave and join at any
>>>>> time, and click/patrol for all edits that are reported in the
>>>>> channel.
>>>>>
>>>>> In comparison to the checklists, the CVN-channel has a couple of
>>>>> advantages. JelteBot (the recent-changes bot in #cvn-commons)
>>>>> emphasises edits based on blacklists and watchlists, making it
>>>>> easier to detect potential vandalism. (If you monitor other
>>>>> channels too, you could add /Warning!/ to your IRC-stalklist.)
>>>>>
>>>>> So I recommend the "patroller" right for anybody who wishes
to
>>>>> participate, which you can ask for
>>>>> here:
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Requests_for_rights.
Please
>>>>> feel free to join #cvn-commons, or Commons' main channel
>>>>> #wikimedia-commons, for more information about other ways to get
>>>>> involved.
>>>>> Every user in the counter-vandalism channel, watching and
>>>>> reacting to the stream, reduces the backlog even more.
>>>>>
>>>>> Watching live means the user can be reverted and warned
>>>>> directly; s/he will either get blocked if they continue
>>>>> disruption, or (not unlikely) the vandal will stop when s/he
>>>>> reads the warning.
>>>>>
>>>>> Doing this live, instead of afterwards, prevents more vandalism,
>>>>> and thus generate less edits in the backlog.
>>>>>
>>>>> *Checklists*
>>>>>
>>>>> Since it's unlikely (though the impossible goal of Live watch)
to
>>>>> click and patrol each and every link in the IRC channel, lots of
>>>>> links are missed.
>>>>> Either because no-one was on watch, or it got lost in
>>>>> the fast stream of links.
>>>>>
>>>>> For that, we have the checklists. These contain all unpatrolled
>>>>> anonymous edits from a certain time frame.
>>>>> These are, until we have a much bigger team, the primary and most
>>>>> time-consuming ways of fighting vandalism.
>>>>>
>>>>> Also, when you can't access IRC, or don't like it for some
>>>>> reason, the RecentChanges-page is a good alternative:
>>>>> -
<http://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:RecentChanges&hidepatrolled=1&days=1&limit=50&hideliu=1&hidemyself=1
>>>>>
<http://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:RecentChanges&hidepatrolled=1&days=1&limit=50&hideliu=1&hidemyself=1>>
>>>>>
>>>>> If you don't know how this works, check the following links to
>>>>> get you up to speed:
>>>>> -
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Patrol
>>>>> -
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Counter_Vandalism_Unit
(last
>>>>> few headings on File and Tools)
>>>>> -
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eJXvZ65ttQ4 (short video
>>>>> tutorial on the CVU)
>>>>>
>>>>> Then visit the CVU and check out a portion/day-part:
>>>>>
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/COM:ANO#Anonymous_edits
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Thank you for reading,
>>>>>
>>>>> Yours,
>>>>> Krinkle
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> --
>>>>> Greetings,
>>>>> Krinkle
>>>>> A Wikipedia Volunteer
>>>>> krinkle(a)wikipedia.be <mailto:krinkle@wikipedia.be>
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