Counter vandalism strategies

Finding Vandalism
To find vandalism, there are various tools you could use.

IRC
Simply connect to irc.freenode.net, and join #cvn-wp-en (for the English Wikipedia) There is usually a bot that reports suspicious edits.
 * Installation


 * Advantages
 * Highlights only suspect edits
 * Blacklist system
 * No lag most of the time
 * Frequent vandalism targets are watchlisted


 * Disadvantages
 * Not all edits are reported

Reverting vandalism
The most basic way to revert vandalism is to manually revert a page to an eailer version. Instructions on how to manually revert can be found here. However, there are various tools that you could use to revert pages faster.

Navigation popups
Information regarding this script can be found here.

To install, simply add the following code to your common.js file. // User:Lupin/popups.js mw.loader.load('//en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User:Lupin/popups.js&action=raw&ctype=text/javascript');

You may also wish to add these two values, as they could speed up the popup loading time. simplePopups = true; popupStructure = original;

To use the revert function with popup, go to a diff page, move your mouse over a link that says Revision as of 14:00,01 April 2004. Then click rv to revert to that revision, or goto action and click revert depending on which setting you chose.