I'm not sure it's nessecary. As both Angela and I have already noted in this thread, there is already a group dedicated to monitoring small Wikis for spam and vandalism.
Mark
On 27/11/05, Brion Vibber brion@pobox.com wrote:
Matthew R. Howard, Sr. wrote:
Brian wrote:
There have been numerous reports recently of finding rampant vandalism on small Wikipedias/Wiktionaries. It might be useful to create an RC page and/or IRC channel which brings together the RC's of the ~50 smallest Wikipedias.
That does sound like a good idea. Do the smaller wikis have something similar to the #en.wikipedia irc channel that streams RC data?
All of our wikis do.
if so, I should be able to mod cool_cat's bot (possibly just run 1 bot per wiki) and use a single channel for the smaller wikis.
Could do. Alternatively it's probably possible to adjust our RC bots to have some send a second stream (but I'm not sure offhand how to do this, Tim can you comment?)
My only issue with doing that would be, would the channel scroll so fast that no one would be able to keep track...?
In general it would hardly ever move. By definition they have low traffic. ;)
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