On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 5:47 PM, <abigor(a)forgotten-beauty.com> wrote: 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)

Well, if we are to activate a bot, I would like to see a proper waiting time before suspected vandalism is reverted. An hour or so would be nice. That leaves people enough time to act, which is always better than just an automated bot reverting everything. Regards, ChrisiPK 2009/1/20 Robert Rohde <rarohde(a)gmail.com>om>:

2009/1/20 Howard Cheng <howard(a)howcheng.com>om>: Just in case an edit is not vandalism or at least not entirely. A new user wanting to add a comment and accidentally blanking the page should of course be reverted, but the comment should also be implemented in the page. The bot couldn't do that, it would just revert the edit. Regards, ChrisiPK 2009/1/20 Howard Cheng <howard(a)howcheng.com>om>: > On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 10:51 AM, ChrisiPK <chrisipk(a)gmail.com> wrote: >> >> Well, if we are to activate a bot, I would like to see a proper >> waiting time before suspected vandalism is reverted. An hour or so >> would be nice. That leaves people enough time to act, which is always >> better than just an automated bot reverting everything. >> >> Regards, >> >> ChrisiPK >> > > > -h > > _______________________________________________ > Commons-l mailing list > Commons-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/commons-l > >

2009/1/20 Platonides <Platonides(a)gmail.com>om>: Sounds good to me. We will have to establish a user base in that channel, however. Yes, but they can't restore the info they deleted. That's my concern. Regards, ChrisiPK 2009/1/20 Platonides <Platonides(a)gmail.com>om>: > ChrisiPK wrote: >> 2009/1/20 Howard Cheng <howard(a)howcheng.com>om>: >>> I don't see why. The faster the better IMHO. >> >> Just in case an edit is not vandalism or at least not entirely. A new >> user wanting to add a comment and accidentally blanking the page >> should of course be reverted, but the comment should also be >> implemented in the page. The bot couldn't do that, it would just >> revert the edit. >> >> Regards, >> >> ChrisiPK > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Commons-l mailing list > Commons-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/commons-l >

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,

On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 1:50 PM, Eugene Zelenko <eugene.zelenko(a)gmail.com> wrote: Are there enough people interested in flagging revisions? The downside of flagged revisions is that people need to be able to more or less keep up, otherwise new users and like could end up feeling their work is ignored. I worry that flagged revisions would just fall into the same problem of too many files and not enough people to look after them -Robert Rohde