User:RDN1F/adoption/course1

COURSE 1!!!!

Let's BEGIN!

Recent Changes
Look at the right side of your Wikipedia page, and loook all the way down in that grey coloured rectangle thing, to where it says Interaction. Can you see it? It's got Help, About Wikipedia, Community Portal, Recent Changes and Contact Wikipedia buttons in it! Click on Recent Changes. So far so good. You might want to control and click, so you can still see this page. Probably should have told you that earlier.

Anyway...

There's a great big long list of pages. Click the top one. This is the most recently edited page. Sometimes, a little genius would have sat on his or her desk and done a really great edit. Other times, a little rascal would have vandalized a page. Now, download Twinkle WP:TW. It's a tool of pure epicness which you can use to fight vandals in the wonderful world of Wikipedia. Wow. So, on this Recent Change page you are on, click the button in the top(ish) right hand corner that says 'Page' with a little down pointing arrow. A drop down menu appears. Click on history. Now click 'Compare Selected Revisions'. Have a look at what has been changed. Have they added a naughty word? Have they deleted everything? Have they added a new fact? If they have done something rather silly, that deserves a smacked bottom, click the red words 'rollback (VANDAL)' and they will be in big trouble! If they have added a rather interesting fact, that you guess is true, leave it and go back onto the main page. If they have added a fact that you know, in your genius little mind, isn't true click rollback button with the letter 'AGF' next to them. Now, I know what you are thinking. AGF stands for Assume Good Faith. This means if someone has done something a little daft, but not deliberatly, you can politely change it. AGF should not be used if the editor is being a cheeky so and so, or telling deliberate porkies....BUT you should ASSUME that the editor is trying the best. I think it's always best to ignore there previous edits and warnings.

Now for an example:

Example
You click on recent changes. The top result is butterfly. You view the history. Previously, it read

"A butterfly is a mainly day-flying insect of the order Lepidoptera, the butterflies and moths"

However, someone has changed it to

"Butterflies stink"

Which button do you press? Answer: rollback VANDAL. This person was deliberatly vandalising.

Now someone has changed it to:

"A butterfly is a mainly night-flying creature of the order Lepidoptttterrrraaa, the butterflies and months"

Which button do you press? Answer: rollback AGF. This person tried there best. So, they thought butterflies were night flying creatures, and they spely a few words wrong, nothing a rollback won't fix. You just have to try and remember they did there best, and it probably wasn't deliberate

Over time, you will recognize vandalism as it appears on the Recent Changes page. The numbers in green and red mean how many letters have been added or removed. If all the letters have been removed, this probably means trouble.