WikiIslam:Administrators

Vandalism Related

Lock down/protected Mode

This mode is enabled on the wiki to protect against ongoing vandalism which may involve multiple users, user accounts or IP addresses.

This mode disables anonymous edits and new user accounts.

• No Anonymous edits: (click on either link and save the page): On | Off

This disables anonymous edits from IP. Its helpful for spam or vandalism. The page WikiIslam:Forum can still be edited by IP users. For spam on that page, protect it temporarily separately.

Blocking/Unblocking

• WikiIslam:Blocking Policy
• Block user or IP | Block log | Edit Monitor log | old: Auto Block log
• Range blocks: (for persistent vandalism using similar IP's) Range Blocks (mediawiki.org) | IP Range Block calculator

• • To ban IP address 111.x.x.x: 111.0.0.0/8
  • To ban IP address 111.222.x.x: 111.222.0.0/16
  • To ban IP address 111.222.333.x: 111.222.333.0/24
• Banned template: {{banned|reason}}
• Unblock: Currently Blocked IP addresses and usernames (for current blocks and unblocking)
• MediaWiki:Edit Monitor:
  • Edit Monitor log, old: Auto Block log
  • Edit Monitor Info for Admins (clear ET Table now) - use after unblocking a user that has been blocked by AB by mistake.
  • MediaWiki:EM Block Message - template for message shown to users blocked by Edit Monitor
  • Username lists
    • MediaWiki:Bpl-1 (use for new editors for less monitoring)
    • MediaWiki:Bpl-2 (trusted and frequent editors only; use this list with caution)

Utilities

Recent Changes Cleanup

• Recent Changes Cleanup: for hiding vandalism-related items from the Recent Changes page. These changes will still show up if 'show-bots' is clicked on the RC page.

Spam

IP addresses for spam can be blocked for 3-6 months:

• Related template: Template:Captcha response - page that contains the anti-spam response
• MediaWiki:Spam-blacklist - blacklist spam websites to prevent reinsertion of spam links

If a spam bot keeps recreating a certain page:

• If you dont want to create the page see Wikipedia's help on protecting pages from being created. Steps for that should be:
  1. Delete the page.
  2. In the dropdown for that page, click "Protect"
     • You'll see protection options in a new "Create" box. Choose "Allow only autoconfirmed users".
     • Click "Confirm".
  3. After protection, you should see this in the Recent changes: Admin (Talk) protected "Spam page Title"‎ ‎[create=autoconfirmed] (indefinite)
• Another way to protect a page from a spam bot is to write a hidden comment in the page, save and protect the page for a few months from IP and new users (if its predicted that genuine new and IP users will most likely not edit the page)

Use MediaWiki:Spam-blacklist to blacklist URL's from persistent spammers.

Links

• Latest Spam Blacklist | Main page for SBL

Useful Links and Information

• Special:SpecialPages - this a collection of all available tools/features
  • Special:Statistics (total pages, edits, user information)
  • Special:Version - version of current software, and extensions installed
  • Special:UnreviewedPages - pages that need to be reviewed (Help page for Flagged revisions)
• WikiIslam:Form Submissions (pages that use form submissions)
• Site Statistics (Job que length) - in XML (job queues are created when templates are updated info on mediawiki.org)
• Clear Site Cache - The Site Caches store previously retrieved data and pages to speed up site performance. Clear the site cache after changes to templates that are used on a lot of pages on the Sidebar links. Use it if pages or templates are not showing updates or their most recent versions. If clearing the site cache does not solve the issue, the problem might be something else.
• WikiIslam:Database Compaction
• WikiIslam:Site News

Inactive

• WikiIslam:Users For Recent Activity Email Notification (currently inactive; sends emails for edits from new and anonymous users)
• MediaWiki:Titleblacklist (used only if the extension is enabled)

User management and information

• New Users log
• User list
• User rename
• User Rights Management (for giving rights such as reviewer, editor, etc)
• User lists related to Edit Monitor:
  • MediaWiki:Bpl-1 (use for new editors for less monitoring)
  • MediaWiki:Bpl-2 (trusted and frequent editors only; use this list with caution)

Site Appearance and Interface

See: WikiIslam:Site Appearance and Interface

Guidelines for Administrators

• Page deletions: Page deletions should be done only after it is ascertained that no part of the page content can be re-used to better fit our guidelines
• User blocks: User blocks should be done in accordance with the blocking policy
• Reversal of admin actions (user blocks and deletions) should be done after consulting with the administrator who initiated the action

See Also

• Category:Administrators - current administrators