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OK, so I'm User:Mike.lifeguard, and I do a lot of work on the spam blacklist



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So, one of our problems is we don't have a lot of people



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So I'm going to make a series of screencasts that should hopefully help new users who want to contribute to this area



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I'm really sick right now (I actually lost my voice entirely earlier today), so if I sound kinda funny, sorry for that.



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So this is the main talk page, Talk:Spam blacklist



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And there's instructions at the top for people who want to file



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reports for proposed additions, there's proposed removals as well



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(those are usually longer-running, because it does require a lot more attention and investigation)



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and there's some other sections down here that we'll cover later



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But today I want to cover the bot-reported proposed additions



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We used to have 2 bots, now we only have COIBot



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the page is actually transcluded, so I'm just going to load up the actual page



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So you can see that this is a sortable table



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So you can sort by name (which is already is)



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You can sort by who last updated it (the last update's here, and then by who)



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So you can see here that Beetstra (he's actually the botop for COIBot)



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was the last person who updated that report



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so he must have left some kind of comment.



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And the nice thing about this is that you can transclude using AJAX



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So, you just hit [show], and it shows you the report...



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and you can go down here and see that Beetstra just linked this report to another one.



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And then we can hide that again.



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One of the more useful things to sort by is the number of links



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You can see here, 59 is pretty high, so let's go into that report...



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And there's a lot of information here, as you can see



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this is a fairly standard size for reports



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There's a few sections: Links, Users, the rules (we won't cover that yet)



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additions (we will definitely be looking at that - that's actually the data of every edit where this link was placed in one of our wikis



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the entry we won't worry about yet, and then discussion is where you can leave comments