Help:Moderation
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Moderation is enabled on this wiki to primarily fight spam. It is also helpful in reviewing all new users edits and uploads to ensure it meets our Code of Conduct.
How does it work?
- Every edit (or image upload) by a new user is sent to a moderation queue.
- Until the moderator approves this edit, the page is unchanged. Pending edits also do not appear on the page history nor in RecentChanges.
- The new user can see their edit and continue editing their own version of the page.
How will I know an edit needs moderated?
- A banner will appear at the top of any page the states "New changes await moderation." click on it and it will take you to the moderation queue. If you click on the banner and take no action on the items in the queue the banner does go away until there are more items added to the queue.
- You can also go directly to the special page at Special:Moderation and see if anything is pending.
How do you moderate?
- A new special page is provided (Special:Moderation). It's much like the RecentChanges page, but has "Approve", "Reject", "Approve all" and "Reject all" buttons.
- There is also a "Mark as Spammer" button this will automatically reject any future edits by this user.
- Rejected edits go into the rejected archive.
- Edits marked as spam go into spam archive.
- Approved edits are applied normally and will then show in recent changes and be live on the site.
- Logs of "who approved what" are maintained. Only the moderators can see them.
- If edit conflict is detected and it can't be resolved automatically, the moderator has a merge button to apply the edit manually.
The following good practices are advised:
- Approve unless it is spam, out of place, wrong namespace or anything that violates the Code of Conduct. Not-so-good edits with good intentions are better made Approved and then reverted as usual, and with a reason in the edit summary. This way the author is not offended, and the text is saved in page history, viewable by anyone for transparency and user accountability.
- Any user that is deemed legitimate should be added into Ninjas group to bypass the moderation in the future.
- Abstain from using blocks. Don't protect pages "just in case", except maybe for important templates.
- Allow the full rehabilitation of users with a bad history of editing. Their useful edits to the articles should be allowed, no matter how many times they were blocked. At the same time, trolling on talk pages should be rejected, so are the purposely-low-quality edits.
- Please note that a user who appears to be resubmitting a rejected edit does not necessarily imply an intent to edit-war, but the user might have made changes to their pending edit without noticing that it was rejected in the meantime.
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