On Sep 6, 2006, at 5:22 PM, Gregory Maxwell wrote:
Of course, the existing bots will also fix vandalism they detect on articles about living persons.... but I expect you mean bots that specifically target the sort of problems we're expecting to catch with living persons patrol.
The real challenge in that is identifying things which are clear evidence of vandalism (or at least a good red flag) for the bots to look for. An example might be any edit which introduces "is a fag" is highly suspect. You don't have to be a coder to create lists of such red flags... It would be useful if everyone who sees a lot of vandalism would make note of such patterns that we could expect a computer to detect and ideally provide diff links.
Once a good list is built they can be converted into [[regular expression]]s and tested against historical edits to determine their accuracy. Once we are confident that they are good things to watch for, adding them to a bot would take only minutes.
I am asking for something simpler... A "recent changes" page that only shows articles on Category:Biographies of living people.
That could be an excellent first step and a very easy one for developers to implement. Once we have that we can ask one of the bot writers to apply the current regular expressions they have for fighting vandalism.
After that all we need is eyeballs, 10 to 20 editors & admins that want to monitor the bot RC.
Then we can tell the world that we have a BLP patrol in place, to fight abuse in this specific category of articles.
So, David: How do we get the developers to provide us with a recent changes page, for BLP?
-- Jossi