On 4/11/03 10:46 AM, "Marco Krohn" marco.krohn@gmx.de wrote:
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.
Without calling it "vandalism", a word I still think is inappropriate for Wikipedia, automatic sifting of contributions is certainly a good idea.
It would indeed be very interesting to see what would be the result of Bayesian ranking of contributions.