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The Counter-Vandalism Unit (CVU) is a Wikipedia project whose aim is to help detect and remove vandalism on Wikipedia by using tools and experience, and to provide advice on dealing with vandals. All members of the Wikipedia community can revert vandalism at any time. Active vandalism patrollers who join this project will receive occasional newsletters with information on training, software updates, and new or modified policies and guidelines.
Some active members have volunteered to train other editors in countering vandalism. If you would like to learn more about the process or if you think you would like to train others, please see the Counter-Vandalism Academy.
Our goals are:
- Protect Wikipedia from disruption.
- React to vandalism in progress.
- Inform active counter-vandalism users on updates and new software.
- Train new counter-vandals.
- Study the effects of vandalism on the encyclopedia.
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New Pages Patrol — review New Pages to detect copyright violations, vandalism, attack pages, hoaxes and spam, making minor improvements, and listing inappropriate pages for deletion. |
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ClueBot NG — a bot that uses a vandalism-detection algorithm to automatically revert most vandalism. |
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Recent Changes Patrol — users who regularly patrol Recent Changes in real time and, among other things, remove vandalism. |
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Counter Vandalism Network (CVN) — recent changes broadcasted live on IRC channel #cvn-wp-en connect with information on how likely the edit is to be vandalism. |
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The Anti-Vandalism Barnstar
may be awarded to those who show great contributions to protecting and reverting attacks of vandalism on Wikipedia. Use barnstars sparingly – don't dilute their importance. |
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The Silver CVU Award
is awarded to those who make significant contributions to The Counter-Vandalism Unit or to counter-vandalism. |
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The Gold CVU Award
is awarded for outstanding contributions to The Counter-Vandalism Unit or to counter-vandalism where the Silver CVU Award would be insufficient. |
If you have any questions about counter-vandalism, feel free to
Discussions that may be of interest to CVU members:
New Pages Feed
Unwatched pages
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The Academy
For users wishing to learn more about Counter-Vandalism. |
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Vandalism Studies
For research on unconstructive edits. |
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Subtle Vandalism Taskforce (SVT)
For resources and discussion about subtle, sneaky vandalism. |
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Tools
Descriptions of various tools and scripts used to counter vandalism. |
See this list for all unit members.
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| {{User wikipedia/CVU-Vandal Fighter}} |
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| {{CVU topicon}} | A little CVU seal will be displayed in the same way as it does here, in the top-right corner. |
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 | This is a WikiProject, an area for focused collaboration among Wikipedians. New participants are welcome; please feel free to participate!
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