[Foundation-l] Cleaning vandalism on little-watched small wikis

[Rory Stolzenberg]

On 11/27/06, Robert Scott Horning <robert_horning at 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]].