Moderator Tools 
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TheModerator Tools team is a Wikimedia Foundation product team working on content moderation tool needs.
The team's focus is on improving Wikimedia's content moderation processes, including page protection, deletion, reporting, and recent changes patrolling. Our goals are to ensure that Wikimedia's content is as reliable and trustworthy as possible, by empowering volunteer patrollers and administrators. We tend not to work on topics like user reporting and moderation, which are more within the purview of theTrust and Safety Product team.
Latest Update: We are currently focused on improvingWatchlist. Your input is welcomed!
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As part of the newContributors Strategy, we are exploring ideas related to a centralised venue for identifying moderator needs. To start, we are exploring extending the Newcomer Homepage to surface opportunities for newer editors to engage in edit review and related workflows. We hope that this will ultimately grow the community of patrollers and users with other advanced rights.
Please seethe project page for more details and to provide feedback.
As part of our efforts to improve existing impactful moderator tooling, we areworking on a project for a few months to make improvements toSpecial:Watchlist.
As part of our efforts to improve existing impactful moderator tooling, we areworking on a project for a few months to make improvements toSpecial:RecentChanges and related workflows.
We worked on a short project to make feature enhancements to theNuke extension. Please see theproject page.
During the 2023-2024 fiscal year we builtAutomoderator - this automated anti-vandalism software can now be enabled by following the guide atExtension:AutoModerator/Deploying.
In response to the2022 New Pages Patrol letter, our team spent some time working onExtension:PageTriage. You can read the project updates atWikipedia:Page Curation/2023 Moderator Tools project.
We worked on improvements tocontent moderation on mobile web. This project is scheduled to wrap up in March 2023.
In particular, we made improvements to theoverflow menu, and implemented a new mobile design forpreferences.
We also collected feedback on new designs fordiffs on mobile, though this project was paused.
In the2021/22 Annual Plan (July-June) the team focused on design research for the first 9 months (July 2021 - March 2022). We heard from a wide range of editors on the problems they're facing in keeping the content on their projects reliable and trustworthy.
We then published a research report,Content Moderation in Medium-Sized Wikimedia Projects. This report found content moderation on mobile web to be the highest priority issue.
Our team is responsible for the following tools and extensions:
If you have filed a patch in one of these repositories, we will endeavour to provide code review where possible. To request code review explicitly, especially in busier codebases like PageTriage where we might miss your contribution, please add it to theModerator-Tools-Team board in the 'Code review requests' column, so that we can review it alongside our other priorities.