Heroes Wiki:Patrollers

Patrollers

Current Heroes Wiki patrollers:

• Heroe (Contact Heroe)
  • Heroe joined Heroes Wiki in October 2006 and was added to the patrollers group in February 2008. Besides patrolling, Heroe likes Hayden Panettiere.
• Ice Vision (Contact Ice Vision)
  • Ice Vision joined Heroes Wiki in January 2007 and was added to the patrollers group in February 2008.
• Level (Contact Level)
  • Level joined Heroes Wiki in November 2006 and was added to the patrollers group in February 2008. Besides patrolling, Level likes making lists and tables.
• Lost Soul (Contact Lost Soul)
  • Lost Soul joined Heroes Wiki in April 2007 and was added to the patrollers group in June 2008.
• Lulu (Contact Lulu)
  • Lulu joined Heroes Wiki in October 2007 and was added to the patrollers group in February 2008.
• MiamiVolts (Contact MiamiVolts)
  • MiamiVolts joined Heroes Wiki in March 2007 and was added to the patrollers group in February 2008. Besides patrolling, MiamiVolts is interested in Wiki template programming, the naming of new abilities, and theory discussion.
• Ohmyn0 (Contact Ohmyn0)
  • Ohmyn0 joined Heroes Wiki in November 2006 and was added to the patrollers group in February 2008.
• SacValleyDweller (Contact SacValleyDweller)
  • SacValleyDweller joined Heroes Wiki in June 2007 and was added to the patrollers group in February 2008. In addition to Patrolling at Heroes Wiki, SVD is also active at the 9thwonders.com message boards.

All administrators also assist in patrolling, but they are not members of the patrollers group. Current Heroes Wiki administrators:

UPDATE

Since the shutdown of the main wiki on June 1, 2020, the administrators' list below is no longer accurate. It has been left here for history. If necessary, contact LIMAFOX76, who made this XML dump, on his talk page.

Former Heroes Wiki administrators:

• Admin (Contact Admin)
  • Admin founded Heroes Wiki in October 2006 and is responsible for administering the server and MediaWiki software. Admin also handles advertising and public relations with other sites.
• Level (Contact Level)
  • Level joined Heroes Wiki in November 2006 and was added to the patrollers group in February 2008. He was made an administrator in August 2015. Level likes doing research and making lists and tables.
• Radicell (Contact Radicell)
  • Radicell joined in December 2007, became an active member in October 2008, and was made an administrator in October 2009. Radicell is interested in day-to-day editing and general quality control.
• RyanGibsonStewart (Contact RyanGibsonStewart)
  • RyanGibsonStewart joined Heroes Wiki in November 2006 and was made an administrator in December 2006 as the site's continued growth necessitated a larger staff to administer. He frequently verifies difficult to obtain information on Heroes production staff directly with the staff to ensure complete and accurate information on them. This ability became infinitely easier when Ryan was hired to be a digital writer for Heroes, even creating content in the Heroes world. Ryan also handles public relations with other sites as well as with Heroes staff, especially after he conducts interviews with cast and crew members.

Responsibilities

Patrollers are users who have been granted the specific ability to patrol edits, and thus quality check every edit made to the wiki. Patrolling edits helps ensure that each edit is reviewed by at least one person for any obvious mistakes. Selection of patrollers is dependent upon an administrator's view of a person's skill in distinguishing between edits that are appropriate and those that are not (e.g. info is misplaced or doesn't follow the style guidelines, etc.) and how the person typically handles the latter type of edit.

Guidelines

• Patrollers' edits are not automatically patrolled and individual patrollers cannot patrol their own edits. This difference allows patrollers to catch each other's mistakes.
• Administrators are not infallible and reviewing administrators' edits is encouraged. However, administrators' edits are automatically patrolled and cannot be marked as patrolled.
• If an edit was incorrect and not subsequently corrected, then patrollers should not mark the edit as patrolled; once the patroller or another editor fixes the erroneous edit(s), then it can be patrolled. This way, incorrect edits will get the attention of multiple patrollers or administrators so it's more likely to be fixed.
• If a patroller has doubts whether an edit is correct or not, he is encouraged to skip marking it as patrolled and leave a comment on the related talk page if needed. This way the edit in question is more likely to be examined by another patroller or administrator who may be more certain whether the edit is correct or not.
• Patrollers should check edits fully for such things as accuracy of facts, spelling, grammar, punctuation, layout, style, tense, perspective, etc. They should also make sure that polices are adhered to, such as no spoilers on non-spoiler pages, and removing speculation and theories from regular pages.
• If a situation arises where it is needed to address a contributor either on an article's talk page or on the user's talk page, patrollers should do so in a kind and professional manner. They should state the facts, but do so in a way that is not overly aggressive, or containing judgmental language or anything that might be perceived as offensive.
• When patrolling the edits of a new user, patrollers should remember that we all start somewhere, and the last thing we want to do is scare away newbies or casual contributors. It is okay to explain the same thing a million times, but not to the same user. Patrollers should let an administrator know if a user is not listening, is offensive, or is violating Heroes Wiki policies so the matter can be reviewed.

Tips

• In the list of recent changes, red exclamation marks (!) represent edits which have not yet been patrolled. Clicking on the "Hide patrolled edits" link will show only unpatrolled edits. To patrol an edit, click the "diff" or "last" link if the edit was for an existing article. On the diff page, click the link for [Mark as patrolled]. If the edit was creating a new page, there will not be a "diff" link; instead, click on the name of the article and the [Mark as patrolled] link will be on the bottom right. For redirect pages, the [Mark as patrolled] link often appears on the article being redirected to and not the redirect page itself.
• For Firefox users, Alt+Shift+P is a quick shortcut for patrolling on "diff" pages.
• For users with tabbed browsers, opening "diff" pages in multiple tabs is another quick way to patrol numerous pages. A patroller can easily navigate from tab to tab and patrol along the way (Ctrl+Tab, Alt+Shift+P, Ctrl+Tab, Alt+Shift+P, etc.).
• In Internet Explorer, Firefox and other browsers, shift-clicking the [Mark as patrolled] link will open the patrolled confirmation in a separate window. Holding down both ctrl and shift when clicking or middle-click opens the patrolled confirmation in a new tab instead of a separate window in Firefox and other tabbed browsers. This is handy for patrolling through several edits using "diff".