On 11/27/06, Robert Scott Horning robert_horning@netzero.net wrote:
Guillaume Paumier wrote:
Hello,
To help cleaning the small wikis, people from the Small wikis monitoring team have thought about asking people from all projects to create a
redirect
from [[Template:Delete]] to the local speedy deletion template. The major wikis have already set this redirect, but it would be very useful on
small
projects where sysops don't come very often. Thus they could check the linked pages/the related category and deal with the pages containing nonsense or pages remaining after move vandalism.
Please help spreading this request on your projects and forward this
message
to people I've forgotten (I haven't found any mailing list for wikiquote, for example). Thanks a lot.
I'm not entirely sure that this is the best approach to take for something like this. While I will admit that small wikis do tend to invite vandalism because there may not be an active administrator watching the content at all times, having a 'bot or an aggressive deletionist purging all content in a speedy delete category isn't necessarily the best thing either. For myself as an administrator on a couple smallish Wikimedia wikis, I do a review of any candidates that get marked for speedy deletion and I don't always agree with the decision. Sometimes I will bring it up for a community discussion instead (like a VfD or whatever) or try to fix the problems in the page. That means that you have to have a working knowledge of the target language of that wiki, and perhaps even a strong feel for the goals and "traditions" of the Wiki community that is participating. [snip] -- Robert Scott Horning
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The pages aren't going to be deleted by bots. The people of the small wiki monitoring team (see [[m:SWMT]]), if they see spam or blatant vandalism flagged by the IRC bots, would tag it with {{delete}}, then an admin of that project would go through the speedy deletion category and delete it. The benefit of having a redirect from [[Template:Delete]] is that the people monitoring the wiki for spam don't have to actually know the language to tag something (though they could go to [[m:Multilingual speedy deletions]].