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Wikimedia project policy - Cases from Sundanese and Indonesian Wikipedia

2023 Wikimania Singapore

19 August 2023

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Rima H - LinkedIn

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  • Contributor for more than a decade (since 2010)
  • Geographer by trade
  • Adminship:
    • Indonesian WP: 2021
    • Sundanese WP: 2013

(by community, not self-made)

  • Other active wikis:
    • Wikimedia Commons
    • Wikidata
    • Wiktionary
  • WMID staff 2020-2023

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Vandalism

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Me when I get blamed for not reverting a vandal edit 0.001s after it was made

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Vandalism

Existing cross-project or local policies on vandalism …

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Terms of Use [link]

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Universal Code of Conduct [link]

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EN.WP

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Indonesian�Wikipedia

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Indonesian Wikipedia on “Ignore all rules”

“Don’t feel too burdened by the rules” (not ignore)

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“Use your brain, don’t make something up/don’t mess up.”

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Indonesian Wikipedia on Vandalism

[[WP:VAND]]

Article namespace:

  • Page blanking
  • Spam of external links
  • Bot abuse
  • Graffiti, spoof, uncontextual jokes, nonsensical jokes (Silly vandalism)
  • Hidden vandalism
  • Mocking
  • Tag, move, redirect abuse
  • Tag removal
  • Plagiarism

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Indonesian Wikipedia on Vandalism

[[WP:VAND]]

NOT VANDALISM:

  • Test and learning edit by new users
  • Unintentional, good-faith errors
  • NPOV violation
  • Personal attacks
  • Changing majority of the articles
  • Being stubborn

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Indonesian Wikipedia on Vandalism

[[WP:BLOK]]

May lead to block:

  • Vandalism
  • 3 revert rule
  • Personal attacks, doxxing
  • Advertising, spam
  • Unallowed username
  • Undisclosed paid edits
  • Sockpuppeting

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Is this vandalism?

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Is this vandalism?

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Is this vandalism?

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What is this “vandalism”?