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This is the CVUA page for Sei Noelle.
Initial Survey edit
Important Note: This survey is intended to be taken without any use of onwiki links or guidelines/policies. Only use your current knowledge. I want to see how much you know; I'm not testing you. Please answer honestly and to the best of your ability so I can best accustom the rest of the CVUA course to your strengths.
- How confident do you feel about anti-vandalism?
- A: I feel that I am fairly good at differentiating between good-faith and vandalism, though I definitely am not perfect at it.
- What is a good faith edit?
- A: an edit that is made in an effort to improve Wikipedia even if it's clumsy
- What is vandalism?
- A: a edit that is clearly intended to mess up Wikipedia, like inserting gibberish or bad words
- How could one distinguish between good faith and vandalism?
- A: does the edit at least give the appearance of trying to improve Wikipedia?
- When should you revert an edit?
- A: when it is clearly vandalism or bad-faith
- What is sockpuppetry?
- A: an extra account used by someone to mislead people or to break the rules
- What should you do if you encounter a sockpuppet?
- A: Report it to the sockpuppet noticeboard
- If you notice an account is vandalizing on multiple wikis, what do you do?
- A: Tell an admin right away on one of the wikis and say that it is happening on more than one wiki
- What is the difference between how you should treat edits from an IP editor and from a registered user?
- A: remember that more than one person might be editing on an IP
- What is ORES?
- A: I don't know.
- If you see a threat of harm, what do you do?
- A: Report it to the administrators without responding to the threat itself
- If you see a copyright violation, what do you do?
- A: Tell an admin
- If you see personal details or doxxing, what do you do?
- A: tell an admin
- If you see personal attacks on a BLP, what do you do?
- A: revert the edit and tell an admin
- If you see grossly insulting, degrading, or offensive content, what do you do?
- A: revert the edit and tell an admin
- What is metawiki?
- A: the place where people coordinate wiki projects
- What is mediawiki?
- A: I'm not really sure. I think it holds coding or something.
- What is the Wikimedia Commons?
- A: a wiki where people can upload images to use on Wikipedia
- What copyright is text on Wikipedia licensed under?
- A: Yt Commons License or something like that
- What can rollbackers do?
- A: quickly undo other's edits with one click
- What are a few of the more important things admins can do?
- A: protect pages, block editors, and help users
- What is a steward, and what do they do?
- A: they fully control all the wikis on Wikimedia and are essentially admins on all wikis
- If you have questions about anything, where can you go for help?
- A: ask at the Help Desk page
- Is this survey too long? Any suggestions?
- A: No, it seems okay to me
- Do you use IRC?
- A: No
The discussion above is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.