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Advanced Section

The Advanced section will serve as a resource to Wikipedia administrators looking to improve upon their skills, or who wish to learn about how they can help with administrator tasks not related to their area of expertise.

Advanced Techniques : How-to Videos

Tools	How to use tools	Links
Deletion and Undeletion The How-to video is meant to be included under this section, the administrator can click on the video and watch it after reading the short description.	How to view a list of recent page deletions : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Log/delete shows the 50 most recent deletions by default; it can be searched by username, by pagename, or by both at once. How to view a user's deleted edits : Administrators, checkusers, and oversighters can view a user's deleted edits at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:DeletedContributions How to access a deleted page : Three options - To access a deleted page, go to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Undelete without specifying a target brings up a search box, which can be used much like http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:PrefixIndex. How to undelete a page : To undelete all revisions, simply press the Restore button. To undelete selected revisions, select the checkbox that appears next to each revision that you want to restore, then press the Restore button. To undelete a swath of contiguous revisions, click the checkbox for the top-most revision you wish to undelete, then hold the Shift key when clicking the checkbox for the bottom-most revision; thus, all checkboxes between the two revisions will be selected.	Viewing and restoring deleted pages
Manual reverting, undo, rollback, bot rollback, revert images The How-to video is meant to be included under this section, the administrator can click on the video and watch it after reading the short description.	Manual Reverting : STEPS : Click the "view history" tab at the top of the page to display the page history. Click the time and date of the earlier version to which you wish to revert. Click the "edit" tab as you normally would to edit a page.If editing requires a registered account, log in first, or leave a note on the article's talkpage. Complete the edit summary field. Note: "rv" stands for "revert", while "rvv" stands for "reverting vandalism"). Save the page. If constructive edits had been made after those that you wished to revert, return to the page history to find those edits, and redo them by hand if reasonably possible. How to use of the Undo function : To undo a single edit from the history of a page without simultaneously undoing all other constructive changes that has been made, view the page history, then click "undo" next to the edit in question. The software will attempt to create an edit page with a version of the article in which the undesirable edit has been removed, but all later edits are retained. To undo several consecutive edits, even if they conflict among themselves: view the diff to be removed (by selecting the two extremal revisions in the history and clicking "compare selected revisions"), and click the "undo" link. How to use the rollback feature (Including Bot rollback) : Rollback links appear on the user contributions pages, user watchlists, history pages and diff pages. Rollback works much more quickly than undo, since it: allows reverting without even looking at the list of revisions or diff does not require loading an edit page and sending the wikitext back to the server does not require a click of the save button Bot Rollback : In cases of flood vandalism, administrators may choose to hide vandalism from recent changes. To do this, add &bot=1 to the end of the url used to access a user's contributions. For example: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=Special:Contributions&target=SomePersistentVandal&bot=1. When the rollback links on the contributions list are clicked, the revert and the original edit you are reverting will both be hidden from recent changes, unless you click the "bots" link in the recent Changes to set hidebots=0. The edits remain in the database and are not removed, but they no longer flood "Recent changes". Note:The aim of this feature is to reduce the annoyance factor of a flood vandal, with relatively little effort. This should not be used for reverting a change you just don't like, but is meant only for massive floods of simple vandalism. How to revert images : To revert an image to a previous uploaded version, go to the image page and click on "File history". The File history section of the image displays the full history of edits to the image along with a thumbnail of each version. Note: Logged-in users can see a "revert" link for every version other than the current version. Clicking on a version's revert link makes that version the current version. If the image is at Wikimedia Commons you must click through to the image page there to do the revert. You will need to be logged in at Commons.	Reverting
Keeping vandalism out of recent changes The How-to video is meant to be included under this section, the administrator can click on the video and watch it after reading the short description.	This section is meant for the description of the videos itself, it is meant to describe the How-to video briefly and give the administrator a head start on how to make use of the tool before they watch the video.	Vandalism
Protection pages The How-to video is meant to be included under this section, the administrator can click on the video and watch it after reading the short description.	This section is meant for the description of the videos itself, it is meant to describe the How-to video briefly and give the administrator a head start on how to make use of the tool before they watch the video. How to protect and unprotect pages	Protection pages
Block and Unblock The How-to video is meant to be included under this section, the administrator can click on the video and watch it after reading the short description.	This section is meant for the description of the videos itself, it is meant to describe the How-to video briefly and give the administrator a head start on how to make use of the tool before they watch the video. How to block IP addresses, IP ranges, and user accounts, for a specific time or indefinitely How to Unblock IP addresses, IP ranges, and user accounts	Block and Unblock