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A bot is a supervandal. Bots are capable of producing massive amounts of edits in a short period of time. As such, a poorly programmed bot can wreak havoc quickly on an array of articles. Most bad bots will require one or more vandalism counters to be distributed at the beginning of each turn to articles.
Please note that certain methods, such as IRC and Discord, may take some time to receive a response. If you have a confidential issue with Ultraviolet, then please refrain from using the below methods and instead email ultraviolet.issue toolforge.org (redwarn.issue toolforge.org for RedWarn). You can contact team members via the following methods:
Screenshot of Wikipedia recent changes IRC feed. The old school way is to load recent changes and check the (diff) links. It can be filtered according to featured articles, good articles, living people, new accounts' contribs, IPs' contribs, mobile contribs (as these are more prone to vandalism, see Help:Recent changes), and even by likelihood of being damaging or bad-faith.
Discord provides official bot APIs which allow custom elements such as dropdowns and buttons. In spring 2022, Discord released an official "app directory" where server owners can add bots to their servers in-Discord. The Verge described bots as an "important part of Discord". [82]
Please note that certain methods, such as IRC and Discord, may take some time to receive a response. If you have a confidential issue with Ultraviolet, then please refrain from using the below methods and instead email ultraviolet.issue toolforge.org (redwarn.issue toolforge.org for RedWarn). You can contact team members via the following methods:
IRC Bots report at the #cvn-wp-en connect channel on the Libera Chat network list suspected vandalism edits (for example: blankings, edits made by blacklisted users, etc.). Lupin's Anti-Vandal Tool monitors the RSS feed and flags edits with common vandalism terms.
The Counter-Vandalism Unit (CVU) is a Wikipedia project whose aim is to help detect and remove vandalism on Wikipedia by using tools and experience, and to provide advice on dealing with vandals. All members of the Wikipedia community can revert vandalism at any time.
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