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The Small Wiki Monitoring Team (SWMT) is a group of Wikimedians who, using IRC and other tools, monitor small wikis for vandalism, spam or trolling. There are several bots which report any suspicious edits to the wikis that the SWMT monitors. To help, simply join #cvn-sw on IRC. You can also edit the list of users below to register your participation.

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[edit] Definition of "small"

The "small" in "Small Wiki Monitoring Team" is to be taken on broad terms. Although the bots on IRC monitor most wikis with fewer than 10,000 articles, that is not to say that they are "small" as in "insignificant"; rather, we prefer to monitor as large a number of wikis as possible, so that we can most effectively coordinate measures to stop spammers and vandals that damage a lot of wikis en masse, or target smaller wikis because they think they can avoid detection altogether.

Therefore, please don't be offended if one of our members revert vandalism on your wiki, identifying themselves as a member of the SWMT; we're there because we care about your wiki, not because we think it is a backburner project.

[edit] How to monitor a small wiki

  1. Monitor recent changes to inactive Wikipedias at http://www.bloglines.com/public/inactivewikipedias, or see SWMT/IRC for monitoring via IRC.
  2. Report pages that need deleting at multilingual speedy deletions.
  3. Revert vandalism.
  4. Report vandals at vandalism reports.
  5. Report link spam for the Spam blacklist.

[edit] Userboxes

You can add the following userbox to your user page by typing {{User SWMT}}:

Broom icon.svg This user is a member of the
Small Wiki Monitoring Team.


[edit] Members

Members are free to self-identify themselves as Small Wiki Monitoring Team members. You may do so by editing the members list.

[edit] Active members

[edit] Inactive members

[edit] New members (recently joined)

[edit] See also

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