[Commons-l] Vandalism

[Cary Bass]

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abigor at forgotten-beauty.com wrote:
>> You could always get an anti-vandal bot set up, which may be able to spot
>> vandalism faster than any human could. Obviously it wouldn't catch
>> everything, but it's worth a try.
>>
>> --
>> Alex
>> (User:Majorly)
>
> I don't think a bot could get this kind of vandalism. Using a page
> blanking bot could be nice but most work has to be done by humans.
>
> I am happy to notice when I am patrolling new edits I get a often a edit
> conflict with somebody else that is also reverting the vandalism. But I am
> afraid not everything can be found while paroling.
>
> Does Flagged Revisions also works on images?
We can apply Flagged revisions per namespace. This may actually be
not a bad idea; given the high possibility that vandalism goes
unnoticed on Commons file pages. I'm sure that most of our editors
can be trusted to flag pages.

Flagging Commons File pages is also an easier job, because it's fairly
easy to tell the difference between vandalism, garbage and legitimate
edits on Commons.

Just a thought.

Cary



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