Vandalism and Spam, Part 2
- Vandalism
- Are there any local Admins active? Check this using Special:Listadmins.
- Is the user trying to edit in good faith or are they actually destroying content? Remember that inserting controversial information isn't Vandalism.
- Spam
- Does the user have legitimate contributions? Typically spammers only have a few edits and only promote their spam.
- Is the user trying to get me to buy something? If yes, it's probably spam. If no, it's probably not spam.
Once you've decided for sure that it's Vandalism or Spam, you're ready to report it. To help with this process, I have another tool to share with you — VSTFReport. This adds three buttons to a user's contributions page that allow you to quickly report Vandalism, Spam, and User profile headers by a…
Vandalism and Spam, Part 1
. It is a group of volunteers selected by FANDOM Staff, who have additional User Rights for the purpose of removing Vandalism and Spam.
Want to help remove Vandalism and Spam? The best way to help is to start reporting on the VSTF Wiki. There are several different pages here for different types of reports (Vandalism, Spam, Spam Profiles, and Spam Wikis). Each page has an easy to use module to quickly add reports. So if you see some Vandalism or Spam, just fill out the form. Typically VSTF Members will get to your report within about 24 hours, maybe less.
I've covered a lot in this blog—what exactly Vandalism and Spam are, who cleans them up, and how you can help out. However, there's a lot more that be said on this topic—there are dozens of …
Which Editor?
There are three main Editors on FANDOM. Each has unique features, advantages, and disadvantages, but which one is the best? This blog will explain both what the different editors are and which is (arguably) the best.
- 1 VisualEditor
- 2 Classic editor
- 3 Source editor
- 4 Which editor and why?
The first editor is VisualEditor. Enabled by default, it lets users add content, formatting, and images easily and is by far the simplest to use. It also has a "source" mode, although this lacks syntax highlighting.
- Advantages
- Extremely easy to use.
- Displays what the page will look like when you publish it.
- Disadvantages
- Can result in poor formatting.
- Can result in sloppy code.
- Is inefficient at adding, removing, and editing Templates.
- Does not work well for easy removal a…
An Introduction to Dev
Ever wished for a feature like being able to add categories to dozens of pages at once or being able to test CSS and have it instantly applied to a page, instead of waiting for your cache to clear?
As a matter of fact, there might just be such a feature! This blog serves as an introduction to these add-on features, which may be found at the Dev wiki.
- 1 What is Dev?
- 2 What are these features?
- 2.1 EditConflictAlert
- 2.2 MassCategorization
- 3 Conclusion
The short answer, Dev is a wiki. The long answer, Dev is a place where users with skill in code develop scripts that may be imported in order to add, remove, or customize features.
There are literally hundreds of different scripts and all of them are useful in some way. The ones you choose to use depends on yo…
Best Signature Practices
Signatures are used to signify who posted a comment and when they posted it on Talk pages, although they can be used anywhere. This blog details the best signature practices.
Signatures can take many forms; some might look like "~TheGoldenPatrik1 (Talk) 19:51, January 22, 2018 (UTC)" while others include formatting, styling, and images. But before we get into making a customized signature, we need to establish the concept of making your signature wiki-specifc.
You see, you can customize you signature in the "My Info" tab of Preferences. But let's say that you want your signature to be very dark, perhaps a black box with light gray letters. Now perhaps this looks great on your main wikis, which use light backgrounds. But if you ever leave you…