Hi,
I was looking at pages on wiki and couldn't find where to submit
proposals for presentations or cons that would take place on Lyon's
hackathon, so I will post it here.
I don't know how many people who do or have done some antivandalism
(see [[w:WP:VAND|Vandalism]] for info) work in any way are going to be
at Lyon, but if there was at least a small group of people who would
be interested in following topics, it might do to set up some
mini-conference there where we could have some presentations and
discussions.
The topics would be:
WMF-specific:
* Definitions of what kind of issues we are dealing with every day (eg
what is vandalism, how much does it actually affect wikipedia,
statistics and so on)
* Overview of current technologies and tactics used to deal with
vandalism on Wikipedia add sister sites
* Collaboration - how can we connect existing tools we have in order
to make them significantly more efficient
* Future of anti-vandalism: what challenges are there going to be?
What all can we do and improve?
* Presentations of various tools we already have: application based
and web based as well as fully automated tools (ClueBot and other
tools living on labs etc) how they work and what could be improved?
* Hacking?
* Drinking? Oh yes! let's get drunk and use our vandalism knowledge to
blow up the wikipedia! :P
MW-specific:
* Is there any vandalism on small 3rd sites and would there be any use
for a tool to deal with it?
* Effective dealing with spam and robots
Is there someone who would be interested in hacking / talking about
this? Is it worth of having some mini-con on this topic at Lyon this
year?