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.
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That does sound like a good idea. Do the smaller wikis have something similar to the #en.wikipedia irc channel that streams RC data? 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. My only issue with doing that would be, would the channel scroll so fast that no one would be able to keep track...? Maybe something like a trouble-ticket like system, fed by the irc bot, that users may 'take the case' of specic vandalisms, and then 'close the case' when they're done. That too, would entail a lot of extra work to get done on the part of the RC Patroler. If you have any specific ideas of how you think this could be implemented, let me know, I'm off work for the next 2 days, I should be able to bash something out ;]
Vilerage (on irc and en.wikipedia ;])