On 11/12/06, Tim Starling tstarling@wikimedia.org wrote: [snip]
There is a need for judgement, regardless of the software in use. Trolls will go on trolling regardless of what anti-spoofing restrictions we have in place. Our aim should be to minimise their impact, and heuristic systems with a high false positive rate do quite the opposite.
This note brings to mind an interesting homework assignment for the list...
Can we think of a good way to impliment "interactive intervention" in mediawiki which neither adds weird backend requirements (works with the nonpersistantness of php) or odd client requirements (no java or the like).
The idea is that we have hundreds of people in IRC.. many people RC patrolling. There are *many* sorts of activities which software can mark as suspect but which require judgement. Is there a reasonable way for us to get that judgement in real-time?