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We have a long tail of Wikipedias with very few active administrators or patrollers, who may not have the capacity or knowledge to configure Automoderator for their wiki. On such wikis a substantial volume of the anti-vandalism workload is carried out by global editors, who monitor edits across dozens or hundreds of wikis. In particular, Global Sysops and Stewards carry out administrative workflows. These editors would like Automoderator to run on small wikis, with control in the hands of trusted global contributors (Stewards, and perhaps [[ https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Global_sysops | Global sysops ]]). We could imagine giving Stewards a global configuration to control the running of Automoderator across these wikis. This would probably entail a single configuration that applies to all wikis, with on/off switches per wiki, in case of individual issues with its running. Local configuration should take priority if it exists, in case a wiki becomes interested in local configuration. We would want a centralised monitoring dashboard which presented high-level data about Automoderator's behaviour on those wikis, such as rate of reverts. **Open questions** * Should this be Steward-only functionality, or also open to Global sysops? * Is it technically feasible for us to have a global (presumably on Meta) configuration page for Automoderator? * How can we prevent Stewards from enabling Automoderator on a wiki on the [[ https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:WikiSets/7 | opt-out list ]]? * What would Automoderator be called on these wikis? It probably isn't feasible to name it uniquely for each wiki. * What do we do with Automoderator's user page for these wikis? * If Automoderator had the same username across all these small wikis, we could create an SUL account at that username and use a global user page. * How do we enable a false positive reporting flow for these wikis? * What data about Automoderator's behaviour would be needed in a centralised dashboard? * How would we handle a community migrating from global control of Automoderator to local control? * How can local communities view Automoderator's configuration and speak to Stewards about it? * Perhaps we could have a Meta discussion page, and link to this + configuration on the global user page.

We have a long tail of Wikipedias with very few active administrators or patrollers, who may not have the capacity or knowledge to configure [[ https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Moderator_Tools/Automoderator | Automoderator ]] for their wiki. On such wikis a substantial volume of the anti-vandalism workload is carried out by global editors, who monitor edits across dozens or hundreds of wikis. In particular, Global Sysops and Stewards carry out administrative workflows. These editors would like Automoderator to run on small wikis, with control in the hands of trusted global contributors (Stewards, and perhaps [[ https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Global_sysops | Global sysops ]]). We could imagine giving Stewards a global configuration to control the running of Automoderator across these wikis. This would probably entail a single configuration that applies to all wikis, with on/off switches per wiki, in case of individual issues with its running. Local configuration should take priority if it exists, in case a wiki becomes interested in local configuration. We would want a centralised monitoring dashboard which presented high-level data about Automoderator's behaviour on those wikis, such as rate of reverts. **Open questions** * Should this be Steward-only functionality, or also open to Global sysops? * Is it technically feasible for us to have a global (presumably on Meta) configuration page for Automoderator? * How can we prevent Stewards from enabling Automoderator on a wiki on the [[ https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:WikiSets/7 | opt-out list ]]? * What would Automoderator be called on these wikis? It probably isn't feasible to name it uniquely for each wiki. * What do we do with Automoderator's user page for these wikis? * If Automoderator had the same username across all these small wikis, we could create an SUL account at that username and use a global user page. * How do we enable a false positive reporting flow for these wikis? * What data about Automoderator's behaviour would be needed in a centralised dashboard? * How would we handle a community migrating from global control of Automoderator to local control? * How can local communities view Automoderator's configuration and speak to Stewards about it? * Perhaps we could have a Meta discussion page, and link to this + configuration on the global user page.

We have a long tail of Wikipedias with very few active administrators or patrollers, who may not have the capacity or knowledge to configure [[ https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Moderator_Tools/Automoderator | Automoderator ]] for their wiki. On such wikis a substantial volume of the anti-vandalism workload is carried out by global editors, who monitor edits across dozens or hundreds of wikis. In particular, Global Sysops and Stewards carry out administrative workflows. These editors would like Automoderator to run on small wikis, with control in the hands of trusted global contributors (Stewards, and perhaps [[ https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Global_sysops | Global sysops ]]). We could imagine giving Stewards a global configuration to control the running of Automoderator across these wikis. This would probably entail a single configuration that applies to all wikis, with on/off switches per wiki, in case of individual issues with its running. Local configuration should take priority if it exists, in case a wiki becomes interested in local configuration. We would want a centralised monitoring dashboard which presented high-level data about Automoderator's behaviour on those wikis, such as rate of reverts. **Open questions** * Should this be Steward-only functionality, or also open to Global sysops? * Is it technically feasible for us to have a global (presumably on Meta) configuration page for Automoderator? * How can we prevent Stewards from enabling Automoderator on a wiki on the [[ https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:WikiSets/7 | opt-out list ]]? * What would Automoderator be called on these wikis? It probably isn't feasible to name it uniquely for each wiki. * What do we do with Automoderator's user page for these wikis? * If Automoderator had the same username across all these small wikis, we could create an SUL account at that username and use a global user page. * How do we enable a false positive reporting flow for these wikis? * What data about Automoderator's behaviour would be needed in a centralised dashboard? * How would we handle a community migrating from global control of Automoderator to local control? * How can local communities view Automoderator's configuration and speak to Stewards about it? * Perhaps we could have a Meta discussion page, and link to this + configuration on the global user page.