I am sure this is what they are doing, but:
Wouldn't it be easy to detect when article sizes or content fluctuated wildly and mark that as worth checking into? Wouldn't it also be easy to check for new articles created without any Wikilinks? That would probably flag a good heap of the random vandalism right off the bat (dedicated vandals would of course be more subtle, but that's not a new thing). A little red flag for profanities would also probably work as well. This seems like something which could be easily hardwired into MediaWiki -- if condition X, add a list to this edit to Special:Checkup or something like that. But I don't know much about that, and know the developers are few, so it is just a thought, and one they have probably already had.
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On 6/22/05, Kelly Martin kelly.lynn.martin@gmail.com wrote:
On 6/22/05, Dan Grey dangrey@gmail.com wrote:
After a lot of digging (I went through RickK's talk page in the end - glad it was undeleted!) I've found #en.wikipedia.vandalism, which is Cool Cat's vandal-detector bot in its own channel on Freenode.
r3m0t's thing is probably Humanbot, which is inactive at the moment (I only realised after install Greasemonkey and then the script - d'oh!)
No, r3m0t is betaing a greasemonkey based tool that will preload recent changes for you to look at and approve or disapprove in various ways. I tested it the other day; it wasn't bad but it's really designed for nonadmins (it can mark stuff as speedy but it won't do the actual deletes and it doesn't use one-click rollback).
I've got an idea for implementing CDVF as a server application (in Tomcat) to much the same effect.
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