Follow up here... I have looked through each individual contribution from the school and do see repeat offenders, with similar edits on different days. The student did insert a bunch of names as part of the vandalism, one which could be the specific kid responsible. I think the school might be able to deal with or maybe restrict the specific student(s) from using Wikipedia. (is that possible?)
I also looked at meta:XFF Projecthttp://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/XFF_Project, though don't see any schools listed there. Not sure if that's something they can do. If schools can qualify as a "trusted XFF", I can suggest that, should the problem continue and they want to try using XFF.
-Aude
---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Aude audevivere@gmail.com Date: May 1, 2007 8:09 PM Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] contacting schools To: English Wikipedia wikien-l@lists.wikimedia.org
The talk page there seems rather inactive, though I notice that Durova has contacted schools with some success. I'll see what Durova suggests, though welcome any other advice on what schools realistically can do, short of asking for an anon. only block on the IP.
I'd be curious to know how many different kids are responsible for vandalism incidents from the IP. If it's just a small number of kids, maybe something more specific can be done without affecting the rest of the school. Though, I'm not sure what. Not sure a teacher or anyone could really convince a student to behave while on the computer. Or if some technical restrictions can be in place for specific kids.
-Aude
On 5/1/07, Pilotguy pilotguy.wikipedia@gmail.com wrote:
Why not file a report or ask someone over at WP:ABUSE? They usually have experience in handling these types of situations.
On 5/1/07, Aude audevivere@gmail.com wrote:
Does anyone have experience contacting schools regarding vandalism and
can
offer advice/best practices?
I had to block one of the schools one of the jurisdictions where I attended school, and comfortable contacting them. They can possibly track down which student did the latest vandalism, but not really sure what the school
can
do to stop them. I only speculate that it's a relatively small number of other kids responsible for previous incidents of vandalism from the school. Does that sound reasonable?
The majority of edits from the school IP are not constructive, but some are constructive. The volume of vandalism is moderate, but manageable (on
our
end) and not high as I've seen with other schools. And have no idea how many students and staff there edit with accounts. I prefer not simply blocking the whole school because of some bad kids.
What other things can the school network administrator and staff
do? Any
suggestions?
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