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wikiHow to Get Rollback on Wikipedia

Do you often fight vandalism on Wikipedia? Is one of your goals contributing to the site to keep vandals from ruining articles? Well, one tool that you can use to help fight vandalism is rollback. However, you don't get the rollback right immediately after registering. You have to request it by showing that you're dedicated to fighting vandalism, and you'll learn how to get the rollback right in this article.

Steps

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    Create an account. You need to be a registered user in order to get rollback.
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    Read Wikipedia's page about vandalism to find out what vandalism is and how you can spot it.
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    During your first few days on the site, use the recent changes page to find edits that are vandalism and click "undo" to revert them.
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    You'll become an autoconfirmed user after 4 days and having made at least 10 edits. With this, you'll have access to the Twinkle gadget. Twinkle allows to revert edits by a rollback-like function that allows you to revert multiple edits by the same user at once. Turn this tool on by going to "Preferences," clicking on "Gadgets," checking "Twinkle, a set of tools that automates common tasks such as reporting vandalism, warning vandals, requesting deletion, welcoming users, and tagging articles," and clicking "Save" at the bottom of the page.
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    Continue using the recent changes page to find edits that are vandalism and reverting them, only this time, revert them with Twinkle's rollback function. You'll also have access to other tools that will make finding and reverting vandalism easier, which you can find on this page. Do this until you've been on the site at least 3 months and have over 200 edits.
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    Click on the "edit" button at the top of the page and follow the instructions in the edit page to make your request. You'll have to include a short message that explains why you want the rollback right. Be sure that you sign your message by putting four tildes (~) at the end of it.
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    Preview your request to check for errors, then click "Save page" to post your request.
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    Wait. It can take anywhere from a few hours to a few days for an administrator to answer your request. If all goes well, you'll be granted the right.

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    Tips

    • If you want help with fighting vandalism, you can enroll in the Counter-Vandalism Unit Academy, where you'll get an experienced user as a teacher who will guide you through the basics of fighting vandalism on the site.
    • Be careful when reverting edits. You might revert an edit that may look like vandalism to you, but really isn't. Undo your own edit if you mistakenly revert an edit that isn't vandalism.
    • Be sure to warn the user who made the edit after you revert it. Twinkle provides a list of automated warnings, along with warning levels for them, that you can put on the user's talk page.
    • If a user continues vandalizing after a final warning, report them to the administrator intervention against vandalism board. Twinkle can do this for you quickly if you're using it.
    • Always assume good faith. If an edit isn't blatant vandalism, leave a more friendly note on the user's talk page.
    • Look at a page's history to see if more than one user has vandalized a page. If this is the case, revert the page back to the last good revision. Should a page be vandalized by multiple IPs and/or users, request for the page to be protected at the requests for page protection page.

    Warnings

    • Misusing rollback will result in you getting the right taken away, and possibly a block.

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