Wiktionary:Whitelist

The English Wiktionary uses sysop-patrolling of Special:Recentchanges, so that vandalism can be picked off more leisurely. Known good accounts can be added to the "autopatrolled" group, so that their contributions don't appear on that list. Known good IP addresses can be added to MediaWiki:Gadget-PatrollingEnhancements.js, as can widely-watchlisted pages where vandalism is quickly reverted anyway. This "whitelist voting" page is a mechanism for proposing and publicizing the addition of a user or page to that group/script; the principle is to have as "lightweight" of a vote as possible without succumbing to any one person's whims. The existence and purpose of this page were made official by Wiktionary:Votes/pl-2008-09/Whitelisted users autopatrol; the details of its functioning are fairly well established now, but still not official per se.

Also see Special:Log/rights.

Procedural notes

Procedure:

  1. One sysop nominates a name for auto-whitelisting.
  2. A second sysop approves the nomination.
    • If the user is known by an IP address only, the second sysop should add it to MediaWiki:Gadget-PatrollingEnhancements.js. (No archive will be kept.)
    • If the user is known by a username, the second sysop should add that user to the "autopatrol" group using special:userrights.
    • If uncomfortable, or having difficulties, editing the .js file or adding the user to the autopatrol group, sign it "approved" and it will be taken care of - but make a note that you skipped the step.
  3. Any sysop can recommend a defer to a nomination; after a week, the nomination may be repeated.

Effect:

Once a name is added to the "whiteList" in the Javascript, those sysops who have enhanced patrolling turned on in WT:PREFS will start auto-marking these users the next time they refresh that Javascript, or restart their browsers. (The "autopatrol" group does this automatically without enhanced patrolling.)

Archiving:

Tentative guidelines are: remove entries here that are stagnant for two or more weeks. Remove whitelisted entries immediately, or after a couple of days.

 
Make a new nomination

New nominations

  • 37.107.125.201 (talk • js)
    • Nominated by: User: PalkiaX50 talk to meh 02:08, 16 April 2013 (UTC) Seems like a decent avid translation adder at face value, can someone with the right knowledge, judge further?
    • Approved by:
  • 202.93.220.202 (talk • js)
    • They seem like a good contributor indeed, having added many Maori translations already. Unless someone can demonstrate that they are a myriad of errors, I don't really see a reason not to whitelist.
    • Nominated by : User: PalkiaX50 talk to meh 03:00, 9 May 2013 (UTC)
      • The translations are fairly good. There are some slight differences in the nuance of some terms like the translation for a quail - koreke, which is specifically the New Zealand quail, Coturnix novaezealandiae, probably because there is simply no equivalent Maori term for a quail in general. I don't think this should really matter too much; translations don't always map exactly anyway. Jamesjiao → T ◊ C 03:18, 9 May 2013 (UTC)
    • Approved by: —Stephen (Talk) 06:02, 9 May 2013 (UTC)
  • ‎Djkcel (talk • contribs • rights) Another good editor AFAICT.
    • Nominated by: User: PalkiaX50 talk to meh 13:00, 9 May 2013 (UTC)
      Well, they finally learned Wiktionary formatting (and it took a while), but it looks like they're still using nonstandard orthography for the PIE terms; I don't know enough about it to be sure, though. —Μετάknowledgediscuss/deeds 22:59, 9 May 2013 (UTC)
        • I check the new pages in the Appendix namespace regularly, so I usually spot it when someone creates a new PIE page. But links to such pages are much harder to keep track of. I remember there was once a bot that created a list of all uses of {{proto}} (back when it existed), maybe the same should be done now for {{recons}} and {{lr}}... —CodeCat 23:45, 9 May 2013 (UTC)
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