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.
On 11/14/06, Guillaume Paumier guillom.pom@gmail.com wrote:
Hello,
Thanks to Tangotango's great work, there is now a working channel monitoring 20 small wikis. People willing to help can join us in #wikimedia-swmt on freenode
On 27/11/06, Guillaume Paumier guillom.pom@gmail.com wrote:
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.
If someone doesn't speak the language enough to find the deletion template, what's the betting they don't understand that wiki's equivalent of criteria for speedy deletion, if there is one?
Rob Church
On 11/27/06, Rob Church robchur@gmail.com wrote:
If someone doesn't speak the language enough to find the deletion template, what's the betting they don't understand that wiki's equivalent of criteria for speedy deletion, if there is one?
I think [[*whatever* on wheels]] meets criteria for speedy deletion on all wikis. Moreover, sysops are supposed to check any page before speedy deleting it.
On 27/11/06, Guillaume Paumier guillom.pom@gmail.com wrote:
I think [[*whatever* on wheels]] meets criteria for speedy deletion on all wikis. Moreover, sysops are supposed to check any page before speedy deleting it.
Yes, but that's a single case. Moreover, administrators don't want to have to deal with thousands of mistagged pages 'cause someone doesn't understand and won't attempt to learn the local policies.
Rob Church
On 11/27/06, Rob Church robchur@gmail.com wrote:
On 27/11/06, Guillaume Paumier guillom.pom@gmail.com wrote:
I think [[*whatever* on wheels]] meets criteria for speedy deletion on
all
wikis. Moreover, sysops are supposed to check any page before speedy deleting it.
Yes, but that's a single case. Moreover, administrators don't want to have to deal with thousands of mistagged pages 'cause someone doesn't understand and won't attempt to learn the local policies.
I'm talking about obvious vandalism, I'm not talking about overstepping local policies at all. We would be glad to get better ideas to address this issue if you have some.
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