[WikiEN-l] How does living bio patrol actually work?

maru dubshinki marudubshinki at gmail.com
Wed Sep 6 21:55:32 UTC 2006


On 9/6/06, David Gerard <dgerard at gmail.com> wrote:
> I get asked this by the press a lot. So I thought I'd come here and
> ask how it actually works.
>
> 1. What is the actual process?
> 2. How are new living bios spotted?
> 3. Who watches edits in them, on what sort of schedule?

The usual? People just happen to be watching an article on a
yet-living person? Dunno man.

> And 4. the big one:
>
> Is there anything that can be done to make the living bio patrolling
> volunteers' work easier and more efficient? What magical software
> features would you like? Is there anything that some as-yet-unwritten
> bot software could do to assist?
....

Sort by category. As in, a Recent Changes page where only edits to
articles in Living Persons or subcats there of are shown.

~maru



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