On 8/29/06, Cheney Shill <halliburton_shill(a)yahoo.com> wrote:
While looking over this myself, I found a sourced
article referring to a specific wildlife area where the elephant population had tripled,
so having an automated search & replace isn't the answer. OTOH, if the software
can be told to watch for
Yeah I found that too - Kruger Park (and I was very skeptical about
the reference at first - can you believe it, too many elephants,
culling needed!) Definitely not search & replace, but an automated
search & flag would be useful.
The bigger worry is when we can't search and replace because the
nature of the change is too vague. "Everyone go and change some random
dead person to having married just before their death".
I do note, however, that there have been several uncoordinated
responses. Some links:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Centrx/Colbert (probably the most
authoratitive?)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Harmil
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Talk%3AElephant&diff=67362078…
(call to arms)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikiality_and_Other_Tripling_Elephan…
A simple centralized "mass vandalism" page would be a great place to
handle these attacks. People could list all the instances they find,
categorised as Centrx did, into high and low frequencies, facilitating
the task of monitoring them.
Steve