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Advanced Section

The Advanced section will serve as a resource to Wikipedia administrators looking to improve upon their skills, or who wish to learn about how they can help with administrator tasks not related to their area of expertise.

Advanced Techniques

-Protection pages

-Deletion and Undeletion

-Block and Unblock

-Reverting

-Keeping vandalism out of recent changes

How-To: Techniques

Video Table

Tools How to use tools Links
Deletion and Undeletion : How to view and restore deleted pages How to view a list of recent page deletions : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Log/delete shows the 50 most recent deletions by default; it can be searched by username, by pagename, or by both at once.

How to view a user's deleted edits : Administrators, checkusers, and oversighters can view a user's deleted edits at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:DeletedContributions

How to access a deleted page : Three options -

1) To directly access the deleted revisions of a page, type "Special:Undelete/<target>" in the search box, where "<target>" is the name of the desired page.

2) Go to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Undelete without specifying a target brings up a search box, which can be used much like http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:PrefixIndex.

3) If a page has been deleted, then administrators who click on the resulting http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:RED get a link to "View or restore x deleted edits?" above the notice that the page does not exist. This does not apply if a new page with the same name has been created after the deletion; in this case, the link will appear on the page's history.

How to undelete a page :

  • To undelete all revisions, simply press the Restore button. To undelete selected revisions, select the checkbox that appears next to each revision that you want to restore, then press the Restore button. To undelete a swath of contiguous revisions, click the checkbox for the top-most revision you wish to undelete, then hold the Shift key when clicking the checkbox for the bottom-most revision; thus, all checkboxes between the two revisions will be selected.

How to undelete images and other media : The Page history section shows the different versions of the text attached to the image, while the File history section contains the versions of the image itself. You can restore particular versions of both histories by selecting them with the checkboxes; if no checkbox is selected, all versions will be restored.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Viewing_and_restoring_deleted_pages_by_sysops
Reverting : Manual reverting, undo, rollback, bot rollback, revert images Manual Reverting : STEPS :
  • Click the "view history" tab at the top of the page to display the page history.
  • Click the time and date of the earlier version to which you wish to revert. You will see a phrase similar to: "This is an old revision of this page, as edited by ***.***.***.*** (Talk) at 15:47, January 24, 2012. It may differ significantly from the current revision."
  • Important: in the case of vandalism, take the time to make sure that you are reverting to the last version without the vandalism; there may be multiple consecutive vandal edits or they may be interspersed between constructive edits.
  • Click the "edit" tab as you normally would to edit a page. (Above the edit box, you will see a warning similar to: "You are editing an old revision of this page. If you save it, any changes made since then will be removed.") If editing requires a registered account, log in first, or leave a note on the article's talkpage.
  • Complete the edit summary field (the abbreviation "rv" can be used to stand for "revert"; the edit summary "rvv" means "reverting vandalism").
  • Save the page.
  • If constructive edits had been made after those that you wished to revert, return to the page history to find those edits, and redo them by hand if reasonably possible.

How to use of the Undo function :

  • To undo a single edit from the history of a page without simultaneously undoing all constructive changes that have been made since, view the page history or the diff for the edit, then click on "undo" next to the edit in question. The software will attempt to create an edit page with a version of the article in which the undesirable edit has been removed, but all later edits are retained. There is a default edit summary, but this can be modified before saving.
  • To undo several consecutive edits, even if they conflict among themselves: view the diff to be removed (by selecting the two extremal revisions in the history and clicking "compare selected revisions"), and click the "undo" link.

How to use the rollback feature (Including Bot rollback) : Rollback links appear on the user contributions pages, user watchlists, history pages and diff pages. Rollback works much more quickly than undo, since it:

  • allows reverting without even looking at the list of revisions or diff
  • does not require loading an edit page and sending the wikitext back to the server
  • does not require a click of the save button

Bot Rollback : In cases of flood vandalism, administrators may choose to hide vandalism from recent changes. To do this, add &bot=1 to the end of the url used to access a user's contributions. For example: http://en.wikipedia.org/enwiki/w/wiki.phtml?title=Special:Contributions&target=SomePersistentVandal&bot=1.

-When the rollback links on the contributions list are clicked, the revert and the original edit that you are reverting will both be hidden from recent changes, unless you click the "bots" link in the Recent Changes to set hidebots=0. The edits are not hidden from contributions lists, page histories or watchlists. The edits remain in the database and are not removed, but they no longer flood "Recent changes". The aim of this feature is to reduce the annoyance factor of a flood vandal, with relatively little effort. This should not be used for reverting a change you just don't like, but is meant only for massive floods of simple vandalism.

How to revert images : In order to revert an image to a previous uploaded version, go to the image page and click on "File history". The File history section of the image displays the full history of edits to the image along with a thumbnail of each version. Logged-in users can see a "revert" link for every version other than the current version. Clicking on a version's revert link makes that version the current version. If the image is at Wikimedia Commons you must click through to the image page there to do the revert. You will need to be logged in at Commons.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Reverting
Keeping vandalism out of recent changes Administrators can exclude bulk vandalism from Recent changes. To do this, add &bot=1 to the end of the URL used to access a user's contributions. For example,[1]. When the rollback links on the contributions list are clicked, the revert and the original edit that you are reverting will both be hidden from the default recent changes display. (The bot marker was originally added to keep massive bot edits from flooding recent changes, hence the "bot".) This means that they will be hidden from recent changes unless you click the "bots" link to set hidebots=0. The edits are not hidden from contributions lists, page histories or watchlists. The edits remain in the database and are not removed, but they no longer flood recent changes. The aim of this feature is to reduce the annoyance factor of a flood vandal with relatively little effort. This should not be used for reverting a change you just do not like, but is meant only for simple vandalism, particularly massive flood vandalism. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Administrators/Tools

Protection pages

-How to protect and unprotect pages

Deletion and Undeletion : How to view and restore deleted pages

-How to view a list of recent page deletions

-How to view a user's deleted edits

-How to access a deleted page

-How to undelete a page

-How to undelete images and other media

-Multiple Deletions : If after a deletion, a page with the same name is created and that is also deleted, how do you restore the page?

Block and Unblock

-How to block IP addresses, IP ranges, and user accounts, for a specific time or indefinitely

-How to Unblock IP addresses, IP ranges, and user accounts

Reverting : How to Revert pages

-Manual Reverting

-How to use of the Undo function

-How to use the rollback feature (Including Bot rollback)

-How to revert images

Keeping vandalism out of recent changes

-How to exclude bulk vandalism from recent changes

Deletion and Undeletion : How to view and restore deleted pages

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Viewing_and_restoring_deleted_pages_by_sysops

Reverting : Manual reverting, undo, rollback, bot rollback, revert images

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Reverting

List of Wikipedia Administrator tools

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Administrators/Tools

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Tools/Editing_tools

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