Aryeh Gregor <Simetrical+wikilist <at> gmail.com> writes:
On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 11:55 PM, Unforgettableid <unforgettableid <at> gmail.com> wrote:
A) Did I go too far when I did all the research I described above? Do you yourself often use the Range Contributions tool[4] for looking at vandals' ISPs' contributions?
Most of the people here aren't enwiki vandal hunters. Why don't you ask wikien-l instead?
You and Chad make a good point; thank you. I reposted my original message there when Chad suggested it. It has now passed moderation and is visible there[10].
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C) Why did no anti-vandalism software automatically revert either edit?
This list is for MediaWiki development and Wikimedia systems adminstration. The various auto-reverting bots are maintained by entirely different people, and you should ask them.
Maybe I will try asking on wikibots-l.
D) When I look at the history[9] of [[Patrick Stump]], I see that there were fourteen edits between 06:51 and 07:03, most vandalism. Yet the vandalistic edits come from a variety of IP addresses and usernames. The IP addresses differ widely from each other. Why is this?
Maybe because they're totally different people?
I found it odd that so much vandalism happened to that article in twelve minutes. That's an order of magnitude more often than usual. Could it have been one vandal using Tor?
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If you reply to only one of A), B), C), D), E), F), or G) then please use a different subject line than I used. And add a "(was: ...)" tag at the end of the subject line. That way, it'll be easier for others to follow just the parts of the discussion that they want to follow.
I don't think this discussion will go on for much longer anyway, and people would not appreciate it if I posted seven times as many responses to a thread that's largely off-topic to begin with.
I meant my above request to people who only wanted to reply to *one* of my questions. Since you replied to many, there was no need for you to make seven posts. :)
Aryeh, thank you for all your answers.
^ [10]. http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.science.linguistics.wikipedia.english/105554