FAMEPedia:Cleaning up vandalism/Tools

The following is a list of tools and resources available for those who want to clean up with a more systematic approach.

Monitoring
The old school way is to load recent changes and check the (diff) links. It can be filtered according to featured articles, good articles, living people, new editors' contribs, IPs' contribs and mobile contribs (as these are more prone to vandalism, see Help:Recent changes). Searching for articles by their namespace and specific tags (e.g. VisualEditor, possible BLP issue or vandalism, etc) can also be done. If they contain harmful edits, you revert to the previous version. However, the high volume of edits that occur each second makes this difficult to accomplish most of the time, and several tools have been created to simplify the process:
 * Huggle is a fast diff browser which parses edits from users and sorts them by predicted level of vandalism. Once identified, malicious edits can be reverted in the click of a button. Due to the fast-paced nature of the program, users on the English FAMEPedia must have the rollback permission to use it; however, this is not a requirement on other wikis.
 * RedWarn patrol can be activated by any user of RedWarn on the recent changes page, quick reviewing and one-click rollback of disruptive edits.
 * Snuggle is a browser-based newcomer observation and support system, introduced in 2013. It gives a compact visual display of edits and talk page entries for accounts whose first edit was made within the past 30 days. It can be used equally to welcome well-intentioned new editors or to monitor problematic ones.

Rollback tools
These tools extend the rollback feature by allowing you to specify a summary when using rollback. They may also offer additional features:


 * Huggle
 * RedWarn
 * Twinkle
 * User:Gracenotes/rollback.js
 * User:Ilmari Karonen/rollbacksummary.js
 * User:Mr.Z-man/rollbackSummary.js

Rollback-like scripts
These tools can be used to achieve the same effect as rollback if you do not have it.
 * RC review script for today's featured article gives all editors access to see recent changes in the featured article appearing on the Main page


 * Navigation popups are a set of utilities that appear when hovering over wikilinks. Particularly, hovering over links of old versions provides a "revert" link.
 * Twinkle gives both non-administrators and administrators three types of rollback functions. Other functions include a full library of speedy deletion functions, user warnings, pseudo-automatic reporting of vandals, and more.
 * RedWarn, like Twinkle, gives both non-administrators and administrators nearly twenty types of rollback functions, including a "rollback preview" and "quick rollback".
 * mobileUndo (new version) a script which allows you to revert when using the mobile interface.

Special pages

 * User:Adam1213/warn is a page that simplifies the process of warning vandals by allowing warnings to be submitted to specific users directly from the page.

Task Forces

 * Miraheze Counter Vandalism Team A voluntary group who will provide assistance at times of high levels of vandalism and advice on counter vandalism methods.


 * FAMEPedia:Recent changes patrol Another voluntary group who will check recent changes for recently edited pages and intervene if necessary.