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This page is for administrators and trusted editors who watch the open wiki. Most of the roster is historical; | This page is for administrators and trusted editors who watch the open wiki. Most of the roster is historical; watch for spam, blanking, unsourced invention, '''and''' private living-person details that should not stay public. | ||
== Daily habit == | == Daily habit == | ||
# Open [[Special:RecentChanges]] (sidebar link, or bookmark it) | # Open [[Special:RecentChanges]] (sidebar link, or bookmark it) | ||
# Skim new edits and new accounts | # Skim new edits and new accounts | ||
# Open anything that looks wrong: mass blanking, gibberish, promotional links, | # Open anything that looks wrong: mass blanking, gibberish, promotional links, large unexplained removals of research notes, or new private contact details | ||
# Prefer '''rollback''' for obvious vandalism; use undo for a single bad revision you want to reverse carefully | # Prefer '''rollback''' for obvious vandalism; use undo for a single bad revision you want to reverse carefully | ||
== Privacy and takedown == | |||
Treat these as urgent (same day when possible): | |||
* Social Security numbers or other modern identity numbers | |||
* Street addresses, phone numbers, or email for living people | |||
* Gallery uploads that expose private modern documents (medical, banking, full modern IDs) | |||
Remove the text or file, leave a short edit summary (“remove private contact”), and if the request came via [[Contact Us]], reply that it was handled. Contested historical facts still belong on Talk; private contact data does not. | |||
Public note for families: [[About#Corrections_and_privacy]]. | |||
== Rollback and undo == | == Rollback and undo == | ||
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* Contested facts belong on the article Talk page until a source is added | * Contested facts belong on the article Talk page until a source is added | ||
* Inline <code><nowiki>{{Needs source}}</nowiki></code> marks a claim that still needs a citation | * Inline <code><nowiki>{{Needs source}}</nowiki></code> marks a claim that still needs a citation | ||
== Featured Main Page portraits == | |||
The Main Page thumbs rotate automatically each week. To change '''who''' can appear: | |||
# Open [[Featured pool]] (administrators only — edit-protected) | |||
# Add, remove, or reorder bullets (one soldier page title per line) | |||
# Save. Purge [[Main Page]] only if the old set still shows after a refresh | |||
You do not edit the Main Page itself to rotate features. Details and line formats are on [[Featured pool]]. | |||
== Useful special pages == | == Useful special pages == | ||
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== See also == | == See also == | ||
* [[Contribute]] — public editing help | * [[Contribute]] — public editing help | ||
* [[Contribute documents]] — document OCR inbox (upload → review → Apply) | |||
* [[Facebook OCR review]] — editors-only Facebook document OCR candidate queue | |||
* [[About the data]] — disclaimer, what the import contains, and how to read confidence | * [[About the data]] — disclaimer, what the import contains, and how to read confidence | ||
* [[Featured pool]] — curated weekly Main Page portraits (sysop) | |||
[[Category:Ritchie Boys Wiki]] | [[Category:Ritchie Boys Wiki]] | ||
Latest revision as of 19:50, 13 September 2026
This page is for administrators and trusted editors who watch the open wiki. Most of the roster is historical; watch for spam, blanking, unsourced invention, and private living-person details that should not stay public.
Daily habit[edit | edit source]
- Open Special:RecentChanges (sidebar link, or bookmark it)
- Skim new edits and new accounts
- Open anything that looks wrong: mass blanking, gibberish, promotional links, large unexplained removals of research notes, or new private contact details
- Prefer rollback for obvious vandalism; use undo for a single bad revision you want to reverse carefully
Privacy and takedown[edit | edit source]
Treat these as urgent (same day when possible):
- Social Security numbers or other modern identity numbers
- Street addresses, phone numbers, or email for living people
- Gallery uploads that expose private modern documents (medical, banking, full modern IDs)
Remove the text or file, leave a short edit summary (“remove private contact”), and if the request came via Contact Us, reply that it was handled. Contested historical facts still belong on Talk; private contact data does not.
Public note for families: About#Corrections_and_privacy.
Rollback and undo[edit | edit source]
- Rollback (administrators): one click restores the last good version by undoing a user’s consecutive bad edits on that page. Use it for clear vandalism.
- Undo: reverses one revision and lets you leave an edit summary. Use when the page has mixed good and bad edits.
- Always leave a short summary (“revert spam”, “restore roster fields”) so the next patrol editor knows why.
Blocks[edit | edit source]
Block a user or IP when they keep vandalizing after a warning, or when the edit is clearly automated spam.
- Prefer a short first block (hours or a day) unless the pattern is obvious spam
- Block the account; block the IP only if abuse continues while logged out
- Leave a block reason others can understand
- Do not block people for good-faith mistakes — correct the page and leave a Talk note instead
Protect pages[edit | edit source]
Protect a page only when it is under repeated attack and rollback is not enough. Prefer semi-protection (registered accounts) over full lock. Unlock when the wave stops.
Uploads[edit | edit source]
Anonymous users cannot upload. If a logged-in account floods junk files:
- Delete the files
- Block the uploader
- Check Special:Log/upload for related uploads
Sources and confidence[edit | edit source]
- Yellow Record status: unconfirmed banners mean class-roster match confidence is not high — do not treat those class fields as settled
- Research notes may be wrong; prefer a sourced sentence over silent deletion unless the note is spam
- Contested facts belong on the article Talk page until a source is added
- Inline
{{Needs source}}marks a claim that still needs a citation
Featured Main Page portraits[edit | edit source]
The Main Page thumbs rotate automatically each week. To change who can appear:
- Open Featured pool (administrators only — edit-protected)
- Add, remove, or reorder bullets (one soldier page title per line)
- Save. Purge Main Page only if the old set still shows after a refresh
You do not edit the Main Page itself to rotate features. Details and line formats are on Featured pool.
Useful special pages[edit | edit source]
- Special:RecentChanges
- Special:NewPages
- Special:Log
- Special:BlockList
- Special:ListUsers
- Special:UnwatchedPages (if watching is in use)
See also[edit | edit source]
- Contribute — public editing help
- Contribute documents — document OCR inbox (upload → review → Apply)
- Facebook OCR review — editors-only Facebook document OCR candidate queue
- About the data — disclaimer, what the import contains, and how to read confidence
- Featured pool — curated weekly Main Page portraits (sysop)