[WikiEN-l] Date vandalism

[Alphax (Wikipedia email)]

Gregory Maxwell wrote:
> There are a lot of drive-by commentless date changes. Much (but not
> all of them) are vandalism.  They are often difficult to fact check,
> and these days with so much vandalism reverted by bots, I'm worried
> that even more date changes are being missed.
> 
> I believe this is one of the most serious and shameful areas of
> factual error on Wikipedia, although perhaps it is not the most urgent
> nor the easiest to improve on...
> 
> An example:
> Tonight I reverted a date vandalism to [[Pioneer plaque]] which was
> made over a year ago
> (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Pioneer_plaque&diff=14242706&oldid=13186287).
> 
> In that case, it would appear that the edits of a good user hid the bad diff.
> 
> Does anyone have any good ideas kicking around in their heads on how
> to improve this situation... I've thought of some things but I'd like
> to collect some ideas.
> 

Ultimately we need some sort of wiki-meta-data system which is seperate
from the articles...

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