On 8/29/06, Cheney Shill halliburton_shill@yahoo.com wrote:
While looking over this myself, I found a sourced article referring to a specific wildlife area where the elephant population had tripled, so having an automated search & replace isn't the answer. OTOH, if the software can be told to watch for
Yeah I found that too - Kruger Park (and I was very skeptical about the reference at first - can you believe it, too many elephants, culling needed!) Definitely not search & replace, but an automated search & flag would be useful.
The bigger worry is when we can't search and replace because the nature of the change is too vague. "Everyone go and change some random dead person to having married just before their death".
I do note, however, that there have been several uncoordinated responses. Some links:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Centrx/Colbert (probably the most authoratitive?) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Harmil http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Talk%3AElephant&diff=67362078&... (call to arms) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikiality_and_Other_Tripling_Elephant...
A simple centralized "mass vandalism" page would be a great place to handle these attacks. People could list all the instances they find, categorised as Centrx did, into high and low frequencies, facilitating the task of monitoring them.
Steve