[Commons-l] Vandalism

[Eugene Zelenko]

Hi!

I also think that Flagged Revisions is good idea. It'll definitely
help to make newbies contributions patrolling more simple and prevent
efforts duplication.

Eugene

On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 1:31 PM, Abigor <abigor at forgotten-beauty.com> wrote:
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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
>
> Isn't it a idea to have the anti vandal bot  running the recent changes
> but also use Flagged revisions on only the File space.
>
>
> We have a terrible lot of files (thats a good thing) and I believe not so
> many people patrolling the recent changes. While I have seen three
> complaints about vandalism that was there for more than 3 days this month.
> I believe we must try to keep Commons for the visitor so clean as possible
>
> Best regards,
>
>
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