[Commons-l] Vandalism

[Robert Rohde]

On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 1:31 PM, Abigor <abigor at forgotten-beauty.com> wrote:
> Isn't it a idea to have the anti vandal bot  running the recent changes
> but also use Flagged revisions on only the File space.
>
> We have a terrible lot of files (thats a good thing) and I believe not so
> many people patrolling the recent changes. While I have seen three
> complaints about vandalism that was there for more than 3 days this month.
> I believe we must try to keep Commons for the visitor so clean as possible

3 days is a lot for vandalism to something as high profile as
Condoleezza Rice, but on a number of ocassions I've reverted obvious
vandalism that was multiple months old on lower profile images.

As I said, things that get in past the immediate watchers tend to
stick around on Commons.

-Robert Rohde