Am 28.09.2015 um 20:42 schrieb John Erling Blad:
Probability of detection (PoD) is central to fighting
vandalism, and that does
not imply making the vandalism less visible.
Symmetric statements makes vandalism appear in more places, making it more
visible, and thereby increasing the chance for detection.
If such "magic" changes show up on the watchlist and in the page history, I
agree. Then they are edits (or at least pseudo-edits). The simplest way to
achieve this is by using bots.
If you isolate the vandalism it will be less visible,
but then it will be more
likely that no one will ever spot it.
And yes, PoD is a military thingy and as such is disliked by the
wikicommunities. Still sometimes it is wise to check out what is actually
working and why it is working.
Isolation reduces the impact. I think Probability of Detection is actually a
very good metric when thinking about vandalism. But it needs to be weight
against impact/visibility.
For Wikibase integration in Wikipedia, we worked to make the PoD grow along with
the impact: pages that use info from wikidata will have changes to that data
show up in the watchlist and recen5tchanges (integration with the page history
is still planned).
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Daniel Kinzler
Senior Software Developer
Wikimedia Deutschland
Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e.V.