On 10/30/07, Pingveno <pingveno(a)comcast.net> wrote:
I am working on a new anti-vandalism application for Wikipedia and the
other
Wikimedia projects. Before I get really deep into coding, I need to make
sure
that it will actually be used.
The basic problem that the application addresses is vandalism getting
through
Wikipedia's vandalism catching systems. The Wikipedia community does an
excellent job overall, but every once in a while vandalism (subtle or
obvious) gets through. I personally have come across a few pieces of
vandalism that were months old.
The way the problem is addressed is to gather all edits together on a
central
server. Approved users would connect to the server and examine the edits
for
vandalism. If a certain number of users approve the edit it is removed
from
the pool. Edits marked as vandalism ("condemned") would be removed after
the
vandalism has been entirely dealt with: revert, warn, speedy delete, etc.
There are various tricks I can put on the central server to reduce the
number
of edits that need to be reviewed. The most obvious is a whitelist, but
there
are many other techniques such as combining edits made in close succession
by
a single editor to a single article.
Now to my questions.
- Does this sound like a good idea in general?
- Is there already a project similar to mine that I would be unnecessarily
duplicating?
There might be, see
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:FlaggedRevswhich is set to
begin beta-testing on the German Wikipedia very soon.
- A significant number of users are needed to make the system work. Will the
system probably be popular enough to get this minimum
number of editors?
Cheers!
Aaron DeVore
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