Countervandalism Network/2007 standardization

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The countervandalism network
is a distinct group. It is neither
affiliated with nor managed by the
Wikimedia Foundation.

The standardization in late 2007 addressed a number of problems.

Creating the new channels allowed us to gain full access to restricted commands like SET and LEVEL, which previously only Essjay (who created the channels) had. With his departure, we were left with insufficient access to properly manage the channels. For example, we could not standardize the access levels, which greatly simplifies management of global access on a wide network. Before the standardization, different channels had different levels and naming conventions.

The move also placed the channels in the countervandalism namespace we have agreed upon with freenode staff, which lets us have contacts with freenode. Advantages of this include, in particular, the right to usurp channels and the ability to assign countervandalism cloaks.

In addition, we simultaneously removed former staff members from the access lists and added new members. Due to the newly standardized access levels, this is now much easier to update. We also took advantage of the access listings to create a comprehensive list of local operators.

Channel settings

Other

• Topic: "en-Wikipedia countervandalism <http://en.wikipedia.org> | help or info: #countervandalism^connect" (change to appropriate project, local channel ops can add more).

SET options
password	private
mlock	+ntR-cik1
topiclock	off
private	off
secureops	off
secure	on
entrymsg	off
email	none
url	https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/CVN
guard	on
verbose	on

+ntR-cik: prevent external send, topic lock, quiet unidentified; disallow colour filter, invite-only, password.

Founder access

The freenode configuration limits full access to four users per channel, and thirty channels per user. To get around this limit, "CVNfounder" role accounts were created to which all senior staff have access.

management, multilingual or multiple projects	CVNfounder_mul
Wikia	CVNfounder_wikia
Wikibooks	CVNfounder_wb
Wikinews	CVNfounder_wn
Wikipedia	CVNfounder_wp
Wikiquote	CVNfounder_wq
Wikisource	CVNfounder_ws
Wiktionary	CVNfounder_wt
Wikiversity	CVNfounder_wv

Status report

Channel deletions

The following channels are deprecated and will be deleted in the near future.

1. ##wikibooks-en-vandalism
2. ##wikimedia-commons-vandalism
3. ##wikimedia-meta-vandalism
4. ##wikipedia-bg-vandalism
5. ##wikipedia-de-vandalism
6. ##wikipedia-es-vandalism
7. ##wikipedia-fr-vandalism
8. ##wikipedia-it-vandalism
9. ##wikipedia-ja-vandalism
10. ##wikipedia-pl-vandalism
11. ##wikipedia-pt-vandalism
12. ##wikipedia-sv-vandalism
13. ##wikiquote-en-vandalism
14. ##wikisource-en-vandalism
15. ##wiktionary-en-vandalism
16. #beaver
17. #cvu-proxies
18. #cvu-request
19. #cvu-staff
20. #cvu-tech
21. #cvu-test
22. #cvu-unblock
23. #vandalism
24. #vandalism-bg-wp (inactive)
25. #vandalism-de-wp (inactive)
26. #vandalism-en (inactive)
27. #vandalism-en-w (inactive)
28. #vandalism-en-species (inactive)
29. #vandalism-en-wp-2
30. #vandalism-en-wt-2
31. #vandalism-fo-wp (inactive)
32. #vandalism-it-wp (inactive)
33. #vandalism-ja-wp (inactive)
34. #vandalism-kl-wp (inactive)
35. #vandalism-pl-wp
36. #vandalism-se-wp (inactive)
37. #vandalism-simple-wp (inactive, redundant with #vandalism-simple)
38. #vcn
39. #vcn-proxies
40. #vcn-request
41. #vcn-social
42. #vcn-staff
43. #vcn-tech
44. #vcn-test
45. #vcn-unblock
46. #wikipedia-en-cuv
47. #wikipedia-en-cvu
48. #wikipedia-en-newusers
49. #wikipedia-en-vandalism
50. #wikipedia-en-vandalism2
51. #wikisource-en-vandalism