So to advance the cause, I propose some sort of Robot that would collect and collate apparent "bad word usage" into one area, or by a category flag, so those articles could be more easily found and fixed. Of course then we'd need a "bad word list" page or something like that for it to use.
I have no idea myself how to code a robot, but that's my proposal. So now we can at least discuss something.
Let's not get sidetracked into the "this isn't what we should discuss" vein. If you want to start a new thread, go ahead.
Will
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2008/4/30 WJhonson@aol.com:
So to advance the cause, I propose some sort of Robot that would collect and collate apparent "bad word usage" into one area, or by a category flag, so those articles could be more easily found and fixed. Of course then we'd need a "bad word list" page or something like that for it to use.
I have no idea myself how to code a robot, but that's my proposal. So now we can at least discuss something.
Let's not get sidetracked into the "this isn't what we should discuss" vein. If you want to start a new thread, go ahead.
Will
Which words are "bad words"?
On 30/04/2008, WJhonson@aol.com WJhonson@aol.com wrote:
So to advance the cause, I propose some sort of Robot that would collect and collate apparent "bad word usage" into one area, or by a category flag, so those articles could be more easily found and fixed. Of course then we'd need a "bad word list" page or something like that for it to use.
I have no idea myself how to code a robot, but that's my proposal. So now we can at least discuss something.
Let's not get sidetracked into the "this isn't what we should discuss" vein. If you want to start a new thread, go ahead.
Will
One of the BLPs on my watchlist is regularly subjected to naughty words and expressions from drive-by vandalism, which has been cleaned up from time to time by either ClueBot or VoABot II. They clearly have some criteria, for example neither will come back and remove an identical edit that they've reverted; and they don't catch all of the naughty word vandalism, probably closer to 50-60%. It's a start though, and perhaps having more bots of this type roaming through articles, or even having an alert system would help. Good idea, Will.
Risker
Yes, of course. Word-finding bots are easy to write and if you have a particular set of naughty words (or phrases, of course) please publish them so that we can consider grepping them in the wiki.
On Wed, Apr 30, 2008 at 8:11 PM, Tony Sidaway tonysidaway@gmail.com wrote:
Yes, of course. Word-finding bots are easy to write and if you have a particular set of naughty words (or phrases, of course) please publish them so that we can consider grepping them in the wiki.
I could swear GMaxwell used to have an IRC bot doing just this.
Johnleemk
2008/5/1 John Lee johnleemk@gmail.com:
On Wed, Apr 30, 2008 at 8:11 PM, Tony Sidaway tonysidaway@gmail.com wrote:
Yes, of course. Word-finding bots are easy to write and if you have a particular set of naughty words (or phrases, of course) please publish them so that we can consider grepping them in the wiki.
I could swear GMaxwell used to have an IRC bot doing just this.
Mmm. Every time I hear about a - how can I put this? - "dubious words" flagging bot, I keep having a nagging feeling one of the existing antivandal bots already did this.
The problem of high turnover, I guess - a capability on one bot vanishes when that one stops being used...
On Thu, May 1, 2008 at 3:18 AM, WJhonson@aol.com wrote:
So to advance the cause, I propose some sort of Robot that would collect and collate apparent "bad word usage" into one area, or by a category flag, so those articles could be more easily found and fixed. Of course then we'd need a "bad word list" page or something like that for it to use.
I feel compelled to link to this: