Answer each of these questions. You may do researching on wikipedia to help answer these questions. Each question is worth 2 points.
What is vandalism? A: Vandalism is a deliberate attempt to damage Wikipedia. It's differentiated from other unconstructive (good faith) edits by the bad faith inherent in said edits.
What is an administrator? A: An administrator is a regular editor with extra tools they can use. In most respects, admins are like regular users, but they can access several technical features that regular users cannot (more on this below).
What is a rollback? A: Rollback is the ability to quickly revert an edit or a series of edits that damage the encyclopedia. Rollback should not be used in a content dispute (edit war). In January, it was decided that rollback would be granted to non-admins with a good history. Essentially, it's a tool to fight vandalism.
Is it possible to ban someone from editing at wikipedia? A: Yes. Bans are to be distinguished from blocks (which are much more common), but users can be banned.
What is a subpage? A: A subpage is a page derived from another page. This Adoptee tests page is a subpage of my userpage and exists in my userspace. Any page that reads like [PAGENAME]/[SOMETHING ELSE] is a subpage. It's called a subpage because it's subordinate to the mainpage. This page is subordinate to User:Enigmaman.
What is a template? A: A template is something that you can create so that on other pages, you can just have the template there instead of actually filling in all the information.
What is a barnstar? A: A barnstar is an award to give another editor for what you feel is especially good work. They come in many different varieties.
Is a secret page a subpage? A: Yes. All the secret pages I've seen were subpages of userpages.
What is a revert? A: A revert is undoing another edit and restoring the page to its previous state.
What is the main goal of wikipedia? A: To be a free encyclopedia open to all. To provide up to date and reliable information on every notable topic.
Extra Credit (optional). Worth 6 points.
What can an administrator do that a normal user cannot do. Name 3 examples.
Delete pages
View deleted contributions of editors (view edits of deleted pages, basically)
Block users
When you are done, please tell me on my talkpage so I can grade your test.
Test 1
Answer each of these questions. You may do researching on wikipedia to help answer these questions. Each question is worth 2 points.
2 pointsWhat is good faith? A:Good faith is when someone makes an edit to improve the encyclopedia. Whether it is actually constructive or not isn't the point. It's about intent. We should assume good faith of others, in that we should initially assume they're trying to improve the encyclopedia.
2 pointsWhat is bad faith? A:Acting in bad faith is when a user does not try to improve the encyclopedia; rather he/she tries to damage something or make it worse. This isn't necessarily vandalism, but it often is. One should not assume bad faith unless there's a track record of the user not being constructive.
2 pointsWhat is the difference between a ban and a block? A:Haha, this is straight out of an RfA. People running for adminship often get this one. As the page says, a ban is "a formal revocation of editing privileges." This can be for the entire encyclopedia or just a certain area. For example, if you're being disruptive on a talk page, you can be banned from editing there. Bans don't actually do anything, but they can be enforced with blocks if the editor in question doesn't listen. A block is a technical device to prevent someone from editing. If you're blocked, you generally cannot edit anything except for your own talk page. Blocks are done to prevent further abuse.
2 pointsHow does an article reach "Featured Article" status? A:You have to meet certain standards. Before a page can reach FA status, it has to go to the FAC page for review. You first should review the FA guidelines. If you feel the article meets the guidelines, you nominate the page. If a consensus can be reached that the page is worthy, the article is promoted to FA.
2 pointsHow does an article reach "Good Article" status? A:GA is a step below FA. The process is similar, but GA standards are not as demanding as FA standards. Like with FA, you first see if the article meets the criteria. If you feel it does, you nominate it. If not, you try to bring it into compliance with the standards.
2 pointsWhat is a sockpuppet? A:Another account (or IP address) generally used to disrupt Wikipedia. Blocked users will often use sockpuppets to continue their destructive activities. Sockpuppets are dealt with more harshly than a regular user. Some users have legitimate secondary accounts, and these aren't really sockpuppets.
2 pointsWhat is bot? A:A bot is automated, and can make a lot of automated edits quickly. Users create bots, get them approved, and then run them. For example, a bot can be used to tag a lot of things that need tagging, so that a user doesn't have to do it manually.
2 pointsWhat is a WikiProject? A:An example is [1]. It's a collection of pages devoted to coordinate and improve articles that fall into a certain range. For example, the Red Sox WikiProject is devoted to improving articles related to the Boston Red Sox.
2 pointsHow many edits do you need to adopt a user? A:500
2 pointWhat is the difference between a rollback and a undo? A:Rollback is a faster way of undoing vandalism. Rollback will roll back a series of edits to the last version made a different editor. That way if someone makes 7 bad edits in a row, you don't have to undo each one. Also, Rollback is a tool that does it automatically and doesn't make you actually go through the page edit process to undo an edit.
Extra Credit: Worth 2 point
2 pointsWhat is the difference between an admin coach, and a adopter? A:An adopter simply helps a (generally new) editor understand Wikipedia and its policies. An admin coach doesn't do that. An admin coach helps a user meet the criteria that the community has for admins. The goal of an admin coach is to help their coachees become admins.
When you are done, please tell me on my talkpage so I can grade your test.
