Moderator Tools
The Moderator 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 the Trust and Safety Product team.
Latest Update: We are currently focused on improving Watchlist. Your input is welcomed!
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Projects
July 2021 - March 2022: Research
In the 2021/22 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.
April 2022 - March 2023: Mobile web
We worked on improvements to content moderation on mobile web. This project is scheduled to wrap up in March 2023.
In particular, we made improvements to the overflow menu, and implemented a new mobile design for preferences.
We also collected feedback on new designs for diffs on mobile, though this project was paused.
April - July 2023: PageTriage
In response to the 2022 New Pages Patrol letter, our team spent some time working on Extension:PageTriage. You can read the project updates at Wikipedia:Page Curation/2023 Moderator Tools project.
August 2023 - November 2024: Automoderator
During the 2023-2024 fiscal year we built Automoderator - this automated anti-vandalism software can now be enabled by following the guide at Extension:AutoModerator/Deploying.
October 2024 - February 2025: Nuke
We worked on a short project to make feature enhancements to the Nuke extension. Please see the project page.
November 2024 - March 2025: Recent changes
As part of our efforts to improve existing impactful moderator tooling, we are working on a project for a few months to make improvements to Special:RecentChanges and related workflows.
March 2025 - June 2025: Watchlist
As part of our efforts to improve existing impactful moderator tooling, we are working on a project for a few months to make improvements to Special:Watchlist.
July 2025 - onwards: Centralising moderation
As part of the new Contributors 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.
A full project page will be posted soon.
The team
Sam Walton
Senior Product Manager
Jason Sherman
Staff Software Engineer- Susana Cardenas Molinar
Senior Software Engineer - Katherine Graessle
Software Engineer 
Dennis Mburugu
Engineering Manager- Olga Tichonova
User Experience Designer - Dillon Hardy
Software Engineer
Requesting code review
Our team is responsible for the following tools and extensions:
- The Wikipedia Library
- Hashtags
- Wikilink
- Extension:PageTriage
- Extension:AutoModerator
- Extension:Nuke
- Recent changes
- Watchlist
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 the Moderator-Tools-Team board in the 'Code review requests' column, so that we can review it alongside our other priorities.