Karl A. Krueger (kkrueger@whoi.edu) [050208 05:51]:
One place where a few more technical tools might be useful is in ascertaining where the problematic pages are, and bringing it to more people's attention when a page goes into edit-war. As the volume of editing on Wikipedia increases, it's harder and harder to discern anything about current problems by looking at Recent Changes -- there are hundreds of changes every hour. I'll notice an edit war if it shows up on my watchlist or WP:RFC, but if nobody is watching and the editors involved don't post to WP:RFC (or don't know about it), the problem can persist indefinitely.
Not technical tools, but [[WP:AN/3RR]] and [[WP:AN/I]] (and parent page [[WP:AN]]) are being used as alert pages at present, with some success. Think of them as a PA message to the janitors to get out there with mop, bucket and M16.
- d.