Hi CVN folk, <cvn(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Summary:
Most of the countervandalism.net content is outdated, or already
hard-redirects to MetaWiki.
I've made a list of the remaining pages, and hope to merge and redirect
those to MetaWiki, over the next few weeks.
https://countervandalism.net/wiki/CVN_wiki_cleanup
Request:
* There are 7 Questions in the cleanup notes. Please help to answer those,
or add your own questions/comments.
Once the useful content is all located at meta/wikitech, I suggest locking
(or similar) countervandalism.net, so that old bookmarks will still
work/redirect, and edit history attribution is accessible, but people
aren't confused by outdated info and instructions.
Note: I am a newcomer to most of this, so apologies (and let me know) if
I've missed something obvious, but hopefully my fresh eyes can help clean
up some dusty and confusing corners. :-)
-- quiddity
Hi all,
Wikimedia Foundation's Collaboration team[1] is working on new tools that
may make it easier to review edits, detect and fight vandalism, and be more
welcoming to new users.
The interface will be based on recent changes, but enriched with
information from ORES [2], the machine-learning system that predicts things
like "Does this edit have problems / did it damage the page?" and "Is this
edit likely made in good-faith or bad-faith?". If you're familiar with
ClueBot, ORES is a little bit like that.
Based on that information, the idea is to provide different feeds for
different purposes. For example, a feed for good-faith edits (e.g. the
"welcome" feed), or one for bad-faith edits (e.g. the "Vandalism").
Details are still open for discussion, but we could for example hide edits
from the Vandalism feed if they are damaging but likely made in good-faith
(to avoid speedy-reverting a new user). Or perhaps to add them to the
Vandalism review after a short delay instead of in real-time (to give users
of the good-faith feed some time).
Right now these tools are still in early stages and in the end we all want
the same: High quality wiki content, happy editors, happy vandalism
fighters.
If you'd like to share your ideas and get an early look at what they're
working on, e-mail Daisy with the following details:
* Username.
* City/Country or time zone.
* Best time to talk to you.
* Short description of your primary reviewing or patrolling activity.
The testing should take about an hour. To participate, send your details
to dchen(a)wikimedia.org with subject line "Counter-Vandalism".
-- Timo
[1] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Collaboration
[2] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/ORES