On 03/10/06, Birgitte SB
<birgitte_sb(a)yahoo.com>
wrote:
I think this is true of most rules and a good
reason
to *avoid* coming up with a rigid rule to catch
hoaxes. They key is to find them quickly. I
think
en.WP generally does a good job of this. I
imagine
they patrol articles much more effectively than
other
communities. (Or else a ten-month old hoax would
get
a more matter-of-fact recation)
Ten months is pretty extreme by en.wp hoax standards
- three months is
the usual top of the range before it gets caught by
someone, IME.
I think the key is
finding a way to identify "high-risk" articles.
If we
could manage to ggenerate a list of month-old
articles
sorted by least number of edits, and keep it low
profile. It may be enought to do a second round
of
"patrols" off such a list. Although
that doesn't
help
with any currently existing hoaxes.
Something like Special:Unwatchedpages on en.wp -
visible to admins
only? It's worth a try...
--
- Andrew Gray
andrew.gray(a)dunelm.org.uk
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Well I don't know how big Special:Unwatched Pages is.
It might be unmanagable. I don't even know if my idea
is technicly possible, but people do amazing things
with the toolserver. Another idea is if a Lunar
Changes list can be generated. Basically the same as
Recent Changes but it would be pages whose most recent
change was exactly one-month ago.
Birgitte SB
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