User talk:Lynx7725

Eyeball Conventions

 * Newcomer Test for non-malicious, non-vandalizing edits.
 * Newcomer Experiment for non-malicious, vandalizing edits.
 * Vandal for malicious, vandalizing edits.

Modified by: Lynx7725 4 July 2005 11:48 (UTC)

Keeping Score
On 04 July 2005, I've done 48 contributions. Most are edits/ reverts to various articles suffering from linkspams, vandalism, newcomer tests and experiments as Geocachernemesis is AFK'ed. Gotta be a record somewhere. :) - Lynx7725 4 July 2005 11:48 (UTC)

05 July 2005, 45 noted contributions. I realised that this can be used to help me track where I left off each day, so it's not for ego that I do this.. well, maybe a bit. :P - Lynx7725 5 July 2005 11:16 (UTC)

06 July 2005, 44 noted contributions. Very heavy edit traffic today; religion, blender, languages and the ever-present GTA Newcomers are hot pages. There must have been over 1000 edits in the last 24 hrs. - Lynx7725 6 July 2005 11:18 (UTC)

07 July 2005, 33 noted contributions. Strange drop in traffic, but more vandalism, inclusive of a repeat linkspammer. - Lynx7725 7 July 2005 11:33 (UTC)

Re: GTA Pages
Hi Aya, been doing some patrols of the edits. Can you check the GTA pages for consistency/ correctness? Some newbies had been tinkering around with some pages (and not all are nice cuddly newbies either). There's way too many edits over the weekend for me to look through while at work. :P

Please let the other GTA contributors know as well.

Lynx7725 4 July 2005 02:29 (UTC)


 * See: response on discussion page.


 * Aya 4 July 2005 14:34 (UTC)

Another thing
Apologies if it seems a bit arrogant, but I've changed all your '=' headings to '==' to make them consisent with Wikimedia convention, and so that the '+' button works as desired. - Aya 4 July 2005 14:34 (UTC)


 * Sure, that's not a problem. I'm just not aware of the convention, is all. - Lynx7725 5 July 2005 01:31 (UTC)

Vote count summaries
I advise you to not put in vote summaries in WB:VFD. As discovered on Wikipedia, it introduced an element of bias into the way users cast their votes, especially in hotly constested debates. Furthermore, admins ultimately have the final say on what stays and what goes, as per deletion policy (yes, admins can go against consensus, but by convention they do not since that's considered abuse of power). Here in wikibooks, convention dictates that pages with no consensus remain on VFD for further debate until a consensus is reached. I have removed all of these summaries. KelvSYC 6 July 2005 05:48 (UTC)


 * Okay, thanks for the heads up, I will stop adding it then. - Lynx7725 6 July 2005 05:55 (UTC)

Thanks and adminship
Thanks for helping to fight vandalism while I was away. Keep up the good work, because every bit helps.

Do you think that you are ready for nomination as an administrator? I don't see why you shouldn't succeed, because you have over 500 decent edits, and a willingness to do some of the less glamorous tasks involved. I'll nominate you if you like. (Donovan|Geocachernemesis|Interact) 01:48, 10 July 2005 (UTC)


 * No problem. I couldn't do anything on Friday because work picked up, so unfortunately we have a large backlog over Friday and the weekend.


 * No need for the adminship -- I think we got a good system here, we patrollers would flag things up for the admin, then admins like Kelv "MonsterKill!" SYC would zap them. I think it's a good system without introducing too many admins into the broth. - Lynx7725 01:38, 11 July 2005 (UTC)

I thought that I should offer, but as you are happy as you are, I won't nominate you.

Maybe we should introduce a system whereby we create a new page where people on RC patrol can list blocks of time that they have screened, that would make it easier for us to spread the workload (there have not been so many attacks recently, so It's not obvious what has already been screened). So, when you started scanning, you could add a message like Scanning anonymous edits backward from 03:00, 11 July 2005 (UTC) Lynx7725. When you finish, you could change it to Completed scanning anonymous edits 00:00-03:00, 11 July 2005(UTC) Lynx7725. And, when a whole day is finished, you could add Completed scanning anonymous edits 11 July 2005 (UTC). That's pretty rough, but it's a starting point. (Donovan|Geocachernemesis|Interact) 05:39, 11 July 2005 (UTC)


 * I'm doing something akin to that on my Talk page so that it'll bookmark the Recent Changes. It helps me to know where I left off.. putting a new page for this isn't a bad idea though, especially if we extend one of the Special Pages so that it's easier to remember where to go.


 * As for the coverage issue, typically on weekdays you, Aya and myself would be lurking and poking around. Aya and the Master Thief does a good job patrolling the GTA pages (which draws a good portion of the Newcomer Experiments), so that's already a huge load off from the rest of us.


 * The problem on weekdays is I think the two of us overlap in our timings, so there is a period of maybe 6~8 hours where the two of us aren't patrolling.. but in the main problem edits stick to about 10% of volume, so it's not unsurmountable.


 * However, I think we may have a coverage issue on weekends only, as I personally do not really want to spend weekends doing this. :P Unfortunately, I can't expect anyone else to do so give that this is a "hobby" and not a job, so Mondays tend to be hectic. The situation's managable now (with only about a few thousand edits over a weekend?), but if Wikibook picks up the weekend backlog would be overwhelming. - Lynx7725 05:49, 11 July 2005 (UTC)

Hopefully, in the future, there will be enough of us patrolling so that we all naturally overlap (like with Wikipedia now). For now, it doesn't really matter if we don't get around to scanning the edits for a day or two. Except for the sustained attacks, and fixing those while they are in progress can simply encourage them. It doesn't matter a whole lost if we miss some edits, because they should be picked up by the people interested in the corresponding book (in theory ;). And most of us regular patrollers watch the often vandalised Wikibooks pages, like Wikibooks portal, Vandalism in Progress, etc. (Donovan|Geocachernemesis|Interact) 08:17, 11 July 2005 (UTC)

SimCity
Okay, I've expanded SimCity dramatically, wondering if you want to contribute more to it? - AmishThrasher 15:43, 23 September 2005 (UTC)