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.
brian0918
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 ;])
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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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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Mark Williamson wrote:
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.
"Not necessary" is not a reason to not do it. It is a help. And personally, I think this would be a *big* help.
Timwi
How would it be a big help?
Mark
On 28/11/05, Timwi timwi@gmx.net wrote:
Mark Williamson wrote:
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.
"Not necessary" is not a reason to not do it. It is a help. And personally, I think this would be a *big* help.
Timwi
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Mark Williamson wrote:
How would it be a big help?
Mark
On 28/11/05, Timwi timwi@gmx.net wrote:
Mark Williamson wrote:
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.
"Not necessary" is not a reason to not do it. It is a help. And personally, I think this would be a *big* help.
The idea is that we can get the inactive wikis to send they rc feed in one irc channel. For example: #inactives .
Then people can reuse their bot to use that channel, analyse the stream and report warning.
There is a very good tool written in Java that could be used by the team:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WP:CDVF
cheers,
...
There already is such a thing, just not in an IRC channel
Mark
On 27/11/05, Brian brian0918@gmail.com 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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On 27/11/05, Brian brian0918@gmail.com 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.
See http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/SWMT The bloglines feed at http://www.bloglines.com/public/inactivewikipedias collects recent changes from small Wikipedias, Wiktionaries, Wikibooks and Wikiquotes.
Angela
Speaking of which, I've recently gone on a drive to try to eliminate active Wikis from the feed. I found a few actually, including os.wiki, cv.wiki, ceb.wiki, and ar.books, IIRC
Cheers Mark
On 27/11/05, Angela beesley@gmail.com wrote:
On 27/11/05, Brian brian0918@gmail.com 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.
See http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/SWMT The bloglines feed at http://www.bloglines.com/public/inactivewikipedias collects recent changes from small Wikipedias, Wiktionaries, Wikibooks and Wikiquotes.
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At 15:11 -0500 27/11/05, 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.
brian0918
I run about 5 or 6 wikis using Mediawiki and from time to time we have vandalism of various kinds. So I would welcome this!
Brian0981
you could altneratively consider to use "EnotifWiki" (see http://www.enotif.org ) and configure that to have e-mail notifications sent out
* on (watched) page changes * on changes to your user- and user_talk page
* and on new page creations
EnotifWiki is currently based on MediaWiki1.5rc4 and soon upgraded to 1.5.2 or HEAD.
Gordon Joly schrieb:
At 15:11 -0500 27/11/05, 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.
brian0918
I run about 5 or 6 wikis using Mediawiki and from time to time we have vandalism of various kinds. So I would welcome this!
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