Review/2007

The standardization in late 2007 addressed a number of problems.

Creating the new channels allowed us to gain full access to restricted commands like SET and LEVEL, which previously only Essjay (who created the channels) had. With his departure, we were left with insufficient access to properly manage the channels. For example, we could not standardize the access levels, which greatly simplifies management of global access on a wide network. Before the standardization, different channels had different levels and naming conventions.

The move also placed the channels in the countervandalism namespace we have agreed upon with freenode staff, which lets us have contacts with freenode. Advantages of this include, in particular, the right to usurp channels and the ability to assign countervandalism cloaks.

In addition, we simultaneously removed former staff members from the access lists and added new members. Due to the newly standardized access levels, this is now much easier to update. We also took advantage of the access listings to create a comprehensive list of local operators.

Access flags
Users are assigned templates (flags) reflecting a semi-formal hierarchy, with each group having all the rights of the previous groups.

Unused rights:
 * O: automatic op.

Accounts named "CVNfounder_*" have all rights except automatic op, and are shared amongst senior staff to circumvent a four-founder-per-channel limit (see Founder access).

Other

 * Topic: "en-Wikipedia countervandalism  | help or info: " (change to appropriate project, local channel ops can add more).

+ntR-cik: prevent external send, topic lock, quiet unidentified; disallow colour filter, invite-only, password.

Aliases
The following command aliases are used to create new channels. $(1) is the name of the channel being set up.

'''Please do not use these yourself unless you are CVN staff. If you are, please see Pathoschild, Shanel, Krinkle or Barras about helping.'''

Founder access
The freenode configuration limits full access to four users per channel, and thirty channels per user. To get around this limit, "CVNfounder" role accounts were created to which all senior staff have access.

Channel deletions
The following channels are deprecated and will be deleted in the near future.
 * 1) ##wikibooks-en-vandalism
 * 2) ##wikimedia-commons-vandalism
 * 3) ##wikimedia-meta-vandalism
 * 4) ##wikipedia-bg-vandalism
 * 5) ##wikipedia-de-vandalism
 * 6) ##wikipedia-es-vandalism
 * 7) ##wikipedia-fr-vandalism
 * 8) ##wikipedia-it-vandalism
 * 9) ##wikipedia-ja-vandalism
 * 10) ##wikipedia-pl-vandalism
 * 11) ##wikipedia-pt-vandalism
 * 12) ##wikipedia-sv-vandalism
 * 13) ##wikiquote-en-vandalism
 * 14) ##wikisource-en-vandalism
 * 15) ##wiktionary-en-vandalism
 * 16) #beaver
 * 17) #cvu-proxies
 * 18) #cvu-request
 * 19) #cvu-staff
 * 20) #cvu-tech
 * 21) #cvu-test
 * 22) #cvu-unblock
 * 23) #vandalism
 * 24) #vandalism-bg-wp (inactive)
 * 25) #vandalism-de-wp (inactive)
 * 26) #vandalism-en (inactive)
 * 27) #vandalism-en-w (inactive)
 * 28) #vandalism-en-species (inactive)
 * 29) #vandalism-en-wp-2
 * 30) #vandalism-en-wt-2
 * 31) #vandalism-fo-wp (inactive)
 * 32) #vandalism-it-wp (inactive)
 * 33) #vandalism-ja-wp (inactive)
 * 34) #vandalism-kl-wp (inactive)
 * 35) #vandalism-pl-wp
 * 36) #vandalism-se-wp (inactive)
 * 37) #vandalism-simple-wp (inactive, redundant with #vandalism-simple)
 * 38) #vcn
 * 39) #vcn-proxies
 * 40) #vcn-request
 * 41) #vcn-social
 * 42) #vcn-staff
 * 43) #vcn-tech
 * 44) #vcn-test
 * 45) #vcn-unblock
 * 46) #wikipedia-en-cuv
 * 47) #wikipedia-en-cvu
 * 48) #wikipedia-en-newusers
 * 49) #wikipedia-en-vandalism
 * 50) #wikipedia-en-vandalism2
 * 51) #wikisource-en-vandalism