Hi,

I was looking at pages on wiki and couldn't find where to submit proposals for presentations or cons that would take place on Lyon's hackathon, so I will post it here.

I don't know how many people who do or have done some antivandalism (see [[w:WP:VAND|Vandalism]] for info) work in any way are going to be at Lyon, but if there was at least a small group of people who would be interested in following topics, it might do to set up some mini-conference there where we could have some presentations and discussions.

The topics would be:

WMF-specific: * Definitions of what kind of issues we are dealing with every day (eg what is vandalism, how much does it actually affect wikipedia, statistics and so on) * Overview of current technologies and tactics used to deal with vandalism on Wikipedia add sister sites * Collaboration - how can we connect existing tools we have in order to make them significantly more efficient * Future of anti-vandalism: what challenges are there going to be? What all can we do and improve? * Presentations of various tools we already have: application based and web based as well as fully automated tools (ClueBot and other tools living on labs etc) how they work and what could be improved? * Hacking? * Drinking? Oh yes! let's get drunk and use our vandalism knowledge to blow up the wikipedia! :P

MW-specific: * Is there any vandalism on small 3rd sites and would there be any use for a tool to deal with it? * Effective dealing with spam and robots

Is there someone who would be interested in hacking / talking about this? Is it worth of having some mini-con on this topic at Lyon this year?