MediaWiki Administrator's Handbook/Pages to watch

These are pages administrators may wish to add to their watchlist or check frequently on individual Wikimedia projects.

In general

The administrators are the only contributors allowed to modify the MediaWiki and the protected pages (like Main Page). Consequently they should have a look on them to avoid any discouraging project immobilism.

Wikibooks

• Bulletin Board - Wikibooks news, such as policy changes or new features.
• Reading Room - where people needing help or general discussions with administrators happen.
• Candidates for Speedy Deletion - frequently needs checked for pages that should be deleted, kept or changed to Requests for Deletion.
• Requests For Deletion - pages people think should be deleted, frequently needs checked to see if pages should be kept or deleted.

Wikipedia

• WP:AN - Administrator's noticeboard, and its subpages
  • WP:ANI - Administrator's noticeboard/Incidents
  • 3RR noticeboard - Reports of 3RR violations
  • Arbitration enforcement
• Administrator intervention against vandalism - Users reported persistent vandalism or spamming
• Deletion review - Reports improper deletion, or request undeletion
• Articles for deletion - pages nominated for deletion, nominations need to be closed daily
• Requests for page protection - Requests for protection, reports of improper protection or requests for unprotection
• BLP noticeboard - Biographies of living persons noticeboard

Wiktionary

• Request pages - Listing of request pages (contains many that should be watched by administrators)
• Administrator mop-up tasks - Contains a list of all the administrative tasks and who does them
• Announcements
• Vandalism in progress
• Votes - Straw polls to measure community consensus
• Deletion-related pages
  • Requests for verification - Verification and general deletion nominations and discussion
  • Requests for deletion - Deletion for policy problems; request listings, questions and discussions
  • Others - Special page deletion requests, questions and discussions

Wikiquote

• Village pump - Wikiquote news, questions, and general discussion
• Administrators' noticeboard - Administrator notification and discussion
• Votes for deletion - Deletion nominations
• Vandalism in progress

Wikinews

• Newsroom – the hub of operations; article help requests, community connection, tools and resources; help for new users
• Admin action alerts
• Water cooler - discuss the technical issues, policies, and operations of Wikinews
• Deletion requests

Wikiversity

• Request custodian action
• Notices for custodians