Hi all,
I saw just by chance that [[Rust]] was vandalized by simply adding the word
"bull shit" to the text. Thinking about this I asked myself if it wouldn't
be
possible to add an automatic detection for this kind of vandalism? Something
in the way the spam detection programs work. For the beginning a very simple
heuristic algorithm that detects certain word / word combinations would be
sufficient.
Of course the algorithm should not block the modification, simply because it
is impossible to prevent false positives, but it could add the page to a new
special page, making it easier to detect obvious cases of vandalism.
Being still quite new to wikipedia I am not sure if this fits well in the
wikipedia framework and if it is realizable, but nevertheless I would like to
hear your comments.
best regards,
Marco