A bot is a very good idea.
While I don't want to besmirch people who do follow recent changes, in my experience vandalism that gets through tends to be very long lived. I would guess this is because there are so many files and proportionally far fewer people watchlisting each page compared to other wikis.
-Robert Rohde
On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 9:58 AM, Al Tally majorly.wiki@googlemail.com wrote:
On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 5:47 PM, abigor@forgotten-beauty.com wrote:
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?
Best regards, Huib
I'm not sure how familiar you are with anti-vandal bots, but English Wikipedia has several such bots that do an excellent job. ClueBot, for example, would have easily caught that vandalism. We have a lot of coders who would be willing to run such a bot on Commons, with modifications if necessary.
-- Alex (User:Majorly)
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