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Bots to the rescue

Alright, so we're doing a fairly good job at patrolling right now. We're closing in on the back of the backlog, soon we'll be monitoring 'live' again with weekly catch-ups of a few edits. However we should be able get rid of most obvious vandalism with the use of bots (ClueBot), and be able to make some of our human actions redundant (such as signing unsigned talk page contributions, SineBot). I don't know to what extend these are programmed specifically for en.wikipedia, but we should look at getting them over here. –Krinkle^talk 07:31, 12 April 2011 (UTC)

•  Support for a signing-bot in Commons/Commons-talk-Namespace and  Support for a bot that undoes edits that are not preventable with abuse-filter. -- RE rillke questions? 21:59, 25 January 2012 (UTC)
• Hmm, I do not like the idea of a spam filter-like semi-clever bot (like Cluebot) with wrong reverts - or does this very very seldom happen (like with a good spam filter)? If it has fixed rules for reverts (like those in abuse filters), fine. In dewp there also is a signing bot (de:user:CopperBot) which works fine and which I miss here. Rillke, I think you do not want to have a signing bot on COM:L, want you? ;-) Cheers --Saibo (Δ) 00:13, 26 January 2012 (UTC)
  • Hehe, of course only on pages with __NEWSECTIONLINK__, Commons:Categories for discussion/... and Commons:Deletion requests/.... -- RE rillke questions? 13:05, 26 January 2012 (UTC)

We made it to 0 again!

Wow! After quite a lot of patrolling and hard work done, we finally made the unpatrolled anonymous edits reduce to 0! Great work guys! It is 21 now, but subtracting off TimedTexts and translations that cannot be patrolled, the number is 0! Thanks to me, JurgenNL, Krinkle, Zhuyifei1999 and all the other patrollers for their hard work over the past 20 days! Jianhui67 ^{talk★contribs} 14:46, 22 January 2014 (UTC)

The Patrol live counts are broken

Any chance someone could work on getting them fixed? JesseW (talk) 04:44, 7 June 2016 (UTC)

Patrol reform

See Commons talk:Patrol#Patrol reform. pandakekok9 10:49, 19 May 2020 (UTC)

How to get started with Counter-Vandalism

I often revert vandalism on Wikipedia and thought it would be relatively straight forward to do so here, but I can't figure out where to get started. Any help? Berrely (talk) 10:35, 4 October 2020 (UTC)

New bot for images in en-wiki rejected drafts

There is a new bot report (https://heber.toolforge.org/drafts/filter) for images in en-wiki rejected drafts (thanks to @William Avery: for making it). Rejected drafts often contain problematic images which sometimes are left to linger after the draft has been deleted. Would it be acceptable to list this in tools? MKFI (talk) 08:45, 12 July 2021 (UTC)