On 2/27/07, Delirium <delirium(a)hackish.org> wrote:
Part of the problem from my perspective is figuring
out what to do in
some of these tasks. I typically do this "janitorial" work in
bursts---I'll do a bunch of recent-changes patrolling for three weeks,
because I'm in the mood for it, or clear out copyright violations for a
day, then I won't do anything for two months. When I come back to one
of these tasks after an absence, it takes concerted effort to navigate
the web of rules and templates and informal policies. Even simple stuff
like, "so what's the current policy on warning/blocking vandals, and
which of the 100+ user warning templates should I use?".
Test1-7. The rest are for people who enjoy categorising too much.
On the topic of bots but with a slightly different
intent, some
automation of drudgery would help make this work more appealing. Nobody
likes to do work that is super-repetitive and requires no human
judgment. Clearing out the batches of images tagged "orphan fair use"
is annoying and I usually avoid doing it, because at least 50% of them
are trivially mistagged due to not being orphaned (perhaps they were
when tagged, but they aren't now), and so I end up spending most of my
time just deleting the template and pasting in a "not orphaned" edit
summary. A bot could do that for me, letting me as the human look only
at the *actually* orphaned fair-use images to decide whether to delete
them or not.
Already exists. Except that it also delete the orphans.
--
geni