My Lego Network Wiki:Counter-vandalism unit

The MLN Wiki Counter-vandalism Unit is a group of editors dedicated to keeping MLN Wiki a clean and safe site for everyone. These editors not only improve the content of the wiki, but work to remove vandalism and spam. Members of the counter-vandalism unit have many tools that aid in fighting vandalism, such as VDA. Users who are involved in counter-vandalism may also be assigned rollback rights to help them undo vandalism faster.

Anyone can be involved with MLN Wiki's counter-vandalism unit, but please put your name in the list at the bottom of the page.

Patrollers and undoing vandalism
Most members of the counter-vandalism unit are considered patrollers, or people who look through the recent changes and new pages looking for spam and vandalism. This is the easiest way to find vandalism, and an easy way to check edit to see if they are is to click the diff button beside each edit. A way to find possible vandalism it to look at the byte count, which is located to the right of the diff. If it is a positive number, then there was content added. If it is negative, then content was removed.

Before undoing an edit, always check the history and make sure that you get all of the edits undone. If the user or IP has edited more than once, then compare the current revision with the last good one, and click undo.

Warning vandals and reporting to administrators
Once the vandalism is undone, all vandals should be warned in accordance to the blocking policy. For more info on warning, please read that article.

If a vandal has already been warned and continues to vandalize, contact an active administrator.

VDA
VDA is a javascript that allows users to revert vandalism much faster. Like rollback, it reverts all of the most recent edits by one user on one page. This code is currently in the Beta stage, and only one user is allowed to use it. In the future it may be available to all users on the counter-vandalism unit. The user interface pictured on the right shows what VDA looks like when comparing edits.

VDA is very easy to use. If the edits that you are comparing are blatant vandalism, then you simply click the  button. It will automatically undo the edits by the vandal to that page, and give an edit summary of "Reverted edits identified as vandalism by 1 to last revision by 2." If you come across an edit that isn't plainly vandalism, then use the  button. Once clicked, you will be prompted for an optional edit summary. Please input a brief explanation of why the edit was reverted. If an edit was made in good faith, such as that of an administrator or a trusted user, then use. It works the same as, but leaves a different edit summary.

Rollback
Rollback is a user right that allows a user to undo all of the recent edits by one user on one page. Rollback is assigned to users that are good at reverting vandalism, and can be trusted with a tool that undoes it faster. A user may request rollback rights in the requests for rollback page. Rollback should be used for undoing blatant vandalism only, and undo should be used for the rest.

Many people have a strange notion that rollback should also be given as a sort of "award" for general good work around a wiki. This is not so, as rollback is a tool to fight vandalism, and nothing more.

Counter-vandalism network
To aid in finding and removing vandalism, a counter-vandalism IRC channel has been set up. All edits that could be vandalism are displayed on it, and have a link to the difference between the revisions. The channel is located on the freenode network at #cvn-wikia-lego-wikis(Access the IRC). See Project:IRC for more information.

Members of the CVU
Below is a full list of all CVU members. Feel free to put your name onto it!
 * Ajraddatz