These lessons are to be used by John F. Lewis' adoptees. In order for an adoptee to successfully pass the adoption process, they must complete the required courses, and at least once optional course. After the completion of the required courses, and the optional the adoptee will receive a test, tests will vary from student to student depending on the optional courses that took, and the level of editing experience they have. You must pass the test with an 85% or higher to pass, if you fail the test you are welcome to re-take another version after you complete the other optional classes you did not do before. Once the adoptee has passed the test they are not finished with the program, but instead done with the in class part of the adoption process and now will be "free to roam about the project". I will be monitoring their contributions and giving them constructive criticism along the way. I hope that they will use some of the skills taught in my classes, to demonstrate they actually learned something. Once they have demonstrated (through their edits) a clear understanding of Wikipedia's core policies, and have proven to be able to effectively and civilly communicate with other users, they will graduate from my course. They are always welcome to continue to ask me questions, and stay in contact once they have graduated.
Vandalism is the intentional destruction of someone's property.
Y Though relating to Wikipedia would be much better!
List 3 situations where an edit which could be considered vandalism, may not actually be vandalism.
Someone makes an edit with the intention that the edit is constructive in some way to the encyclopedia-building project.
Someone deletes a seemingly useless post on someone else's talk page in order to clean up the talk page.
Someone engages in an edit war, thinking that he holds the correct opinion on the subject, while simultaneously, the other editor feels exactly the same way about his opinion on the subject. The edit war continues, because neither party are willing to discuss on the talk page, and both parties are editing the page incessantly. If one or both partners are IP addresses, then they are largely suspect of committing vandalism on the article.
Y 1 is about 50 - 50 while 2 and 3 are more or less correct here.
What are obvious indicators of a vandalism edit while watching recent changes?
Mass deletion of text that sounds sensible and relevant to the topic
Inclusion of text or pictures that are irrelevant or insensible to the topic
Inappropriate, offensive remarks targeted at a specific person while speaking in second person or first person
You are listing ways while looking at the edit. List ways to tell while at Special:RecentChanges. However the above three are not wrong.
How do you revert vandalism?
Click on View History. Go to the previous unvandalized version. Edit the page. Save. The edit may be marked as a "minor edit".
? Could there be a button/link you could use?
What warning template would you use if a user removed or blanked all the content from a page?
What warning template would you use if a user add the words "i really hate wikipedia!" to an article?
How do you add an article to your watchlist?
Click on the star in the upper righthand corner.
Y No comment.
If you misuse such tools as WP:TW or WP:VPRF what could happen?
Grade:
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WikiMarkup 101
Wikimarkup Assignment
Replace this text with markup from the WikiMarkup 101 assignment.
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Permissions
Permissions Assignment
What is a permission?
A permission is a special editing privilege.
Y Though not all permissions give special editing permissions.
What pages are un-registered users able to edit?
Unprotected pages.
Y Correct.
What is an auto confirmed account?
What is a confirmed account?
Confirmed with an e-mail address.
N Good guess but a confirmed account is manually confirmed (does not have to meet the criteria for autoconfirmed)
What permissions do autoconfirmed accounts have?
Who can grant rollback?
What does rollback enable you to do?
What should you not use rollback for?
What does the account creator allow you to do?
If you have the IP block exemption user right, what does it allow you to do?
What does the autopatrolled user right allow you to do?
What are administrators able to do?.
Administrators can block users from editing and semi-protect or fully protect a page from vandalism.
Could you list any other things they are able to do?
How do you request adminship?
What are bureaucrats main duties?
What does checkuser enable a user to check?
What is oversight?
What type of a user must you be to be granted oversight?
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Requirements to graduate from adoption
Please note these change per user, depending on interests and prior experience
Pass final test with at least a 80% or better
Pass all required assignments plus one optional
Improve an article relating to a Scientific event/milestone so any cleanup tags can be removed from the article (Based on interests/history)