On 6/22/05, Fastfission fastfission@gmail.com wrote:
I am sure this is what they are doing, but:
Wouldn't it be easy to detect when article sizes or content fluctuated wildly and mark that as worth checking into? Wouldn't it also be easy to check for new articles created without any Wikilinks? That would probably flag a good heap of the random vandalism right off the bat (dedicated vandals would of course be more subtle, but that's not a new thing). A little red flag for profanities would also probably work as well. This seems like something which could be easily hardwired into MediaWiki -- if condition X, add a list to this edit to Special:Checkup or something like that. But I don't know much about that, and know the developers are few, so it is just a thought, and one they have probably already had.
FF
a lot of vanadlism involves adding or changeing only one word. With new articles anything small is worth cheack. However since using firefox you can check a page about once every 5 seconds (you open them in lagre batches and view the diffs) it is often quicker and simpler to cheack everything.