User:Capsulecap/CVUA/Tasks

Hello, ! I'm glad that you have chosen to enroll in the Counter-Vandalism Unit Academy. This is where I will be putting your reading material and assignments. I recommend you to watchlist this page so that you are notified every time I give you new information or a new assignment. If you ever have any questions about anti-vandalism, please reach out to me using my talk page. Your first task has been posted below; start when you feel you are ready.

Tools
Although you can remove vandalism with just the undo button and other tools Wikipedia has included, it is strongly recommended to use a third-party tool, such as Twinkle or RedWarn, to greatly simplify the processes involved.

Undo
Wikipedia provides a tool that allows you to undo edits by any user. This tool — the undo button — is available to all users, and is enabled by default. The undo button has many uses, including counter-vandalism.

You can find this tool on the recent changes page, history of a page, or contributions page of a user. To use it, just click the "Undo" button next to an edit. Make sure to provide a minimal description of the reason for edit reversion along with the default summary; you can also use shorthand from Wikipedia:Edit summary legend such as "rv v" (removed vandalism) to quickly provide an explanation that experienced users will understand.

I recommend you to use either of the tools listed below — Twinkle or RedWarn — instead of the undo button, as it is both highly tedious and somewhat confusing at first to remove vandalism with only the default tools. I personally use RedWarn for counter-vandalism, but feel free to choose either. I know how to use both of them, so you can ask me if you have questions about your chosen anti-vandal tool.

Twinkle
Twinkle is a multipurpose tool for Wikipedia that has anti-vandalism features, including quick undo, a user-friendly way to warn people, and the option to quickly revert a page to what it was in any point in time. It also provides many other tools not related to counter-vandalism that can be useful, ranging from page deletion nomination tools to a tool that allows you to add maintenance tags to a page. Its user interface is primarily text-based, which goes well with the default Wikipedia UI. Although the user interface is less intuitive than RedWarn, Twinkle provides a versatile range of features and has more customizability. You can install Twinkle using the information provided at Twinkle.

RedWarn
''Note: The RedWarn developers are working on a new project, UltraViolet, which is very similar to RedWarn. I advise you not to use UltraViolet at the moment, as it is currently in an early beta stage, and I have encountered multiple significant problems while using it.''

RedWarn is another multipurpose tool which can be used for anti-vandalism. It uses a flat, modern user interface that is straightforward for a new anti-vandal, and I find that it takes less clicks to deal with a single instance of vandalism than Twinkle. However, it is less customizable than Twinkle, and its tools outside of anti-vandalism are lacking. You can install RedWarn using the information provided at RedWarn/Install.

Other tools
Although other anti-vandalism tools, such as Huggle, AntiVandal, and SWViewer exist, they require you to have the rollback privilege to use them to their fullest extent. Rollback grants access to efficient, one-click reversion of edits, and adds a button to use that form of reversion on edit histories and recent changes. You aren't ready for rollback right now, but you most likely will have the experience for it by the time your training ends.

'''Once you have finished installation, please tell me which tool or tools you have chosen below (or if you have chosen to not use any tool, tell me so), so I will be able to provide tool-specific help. Remember: if you are struggling, you can always talk to me on my talk page!'''

Usage notes (DO NOT COPY TO USER TASKS)
Use the "copy blocks" delineated by the HTML comments in each page. When you create a new CVUA task page, paste the entirety of the first "copy block" into the page. The "do not copy" blocks should never be copied into the page.

Once every assignment in a copy block has been completed, grade and give feedback on their answers and then copy and paste the next copy block into the page. This process goes on until the completion of CVUA by the user.

I recommend adding NOINDEX to the top of the page after you copy it, as there is no real purpose to having users' CVUA task pages be visible on search engines. Copying the credits at the top of the page to CVUA task pages is optional.

Templates to use while grading/giving feedback on answers:
 * tick: Answer is correct, or is correct with minor issues.
 * yellow tick: Answer is correct with significant issues, or is incorrect but not far off.
 * cross: Answer is incorrect.

The feedback format would look like this:

Write to the user in the CVUA task page (not a corresponding talk page or their own talk page) when you:
 * give out a new assignment
 * have finished grading their answers and ask if they have any questions (could merge this case with the one above)
 * require their input on a question related to CVUA or their anti-vandalism-related activity during CVUA
 * need to tell them something or give them a reminder (for example, to remind them to warn vandals after reverting their edits or to remind them to provide examples of anti-vandalism actions in diff form)

Make sure to notify users with ping when you submit such a message. Assuming that the user's name is Example: