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Analysis of the existing custom tools for UWER
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As part of planning for the 2026/27 year in Product Safety and Integrity we would like to a deeper research of the existing external tools that are being used by UWER to increase their efficiency. Essentially we would like to learn which gaps these tools are solving or which are not solved yet.

Some questions that we would like answered (not extensive list):

  • What are top 3-5 tools that UWER use.
  • Why are these tools important, which problems these tools are solving for the UWERS
  • If they would ask for features in those tools, what would they ask for

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OKryva-WMF created this task.Feb 27 2026, 3:55 PM
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Aklapper added a comment.Feb 27 2026, 5:44 PM

What is UWER?

cwylo added a comment.Feb 27 2026, 5:49 PM

"Users with extended rights", meant to capture all the various "admin+" level user groups that exist across different wikis. From Wikimedia Foundation Annual Plan/2025-2026/Global Trends/Users with extended rights:

For situations that require tools and access — such as the ability to block a user or delete a page — Wikimedians elect trusted members of their communities to carry out advanced tasks and implement policies, guidelines, and consensus. We have begun using an umbrella term, users with extended rights, to describe these users: administrators, CheckUsers, stewards, Arbitration Committee members, and many more.

cwylo added a comment.Mar 9 2026, 1:44 PM

Made this sheet (internal use) documenting vandalism-related userscripts and gadgets in use on English Wikipedia. The categories are very much a work-in-progress, they are my first pass at trying to sort them based on description. Largely based on information and links coming from Special:GadgetUsage and WP:User scripts/Most imported scripts.

Naturally right after completing that, I find this volunteer-created page on Cleaning up vandalism/Tools that does something very similar with more description.

Dreamy_Jazz moved this task from Inbox to Later sprints on the Product Safety and Integrity board.May 15 2026, 10:16 AM
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