On 9/6/06, Jossi Fresco jossifresco@mac.com wrote: [snip]
One possibility would be to have a bot developer to write a RC bot that monitors all articles in the Category:Biography articles of living people. Similar to the RC bots that we have in place to combat vandalism.
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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.