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

[Akash Mehta]

Well, I'm a developer of [[en:WP:MWT]] and I figure I could port MWT
to fetch recent IP edits to living persons biographies. So, as long as
vandals don't remove the category, it should work. I'll see if I can
hack away at the code and build a prototype with the latest stable
release.

-- Draicone | Akash

On 9/7/06, Jossi Fresco <jossifresco at mac.com> wrote:
>
> On Sep 6, 2006, at 5:22 PM, Gregory Maxwell wrote:
>
> > Of course, the existing bots will also fix vandalism they detect on
> > articles about living persons....  but I expect you mean bots that
> > specifically target the sort of problems we're expecting to catch with
> > living persons patrol.
> >
> > The real challenge in that is identifying things which are clear
> > evidence of vandalism (or at least a good red flag) for the bots to
> > look for. An example might be any edit which introduces "is a fag" is
> > highly suspect. You don't have to be a coder to create lists of such
> > red flags... It would be useful if everyone who sees a lot of
> > vandalism would make note of such patterns that we could expect a
> > computer to detect and ideally provide diff links.
> >
> > Once a good list is built they can be converted into [[regular
> > expression]]s and tested against historical edits to determine their
> > accuracy.   Once we are confident that they are good things to watch
> > for, adding them to a bot would take only minutes.
>
> I am asking for something simpler... A "recent changes" page that
> only shows articles on Category:Biographies of living people.
>
> That could be an excellent first step and a very easy one for
> developers to implement. Once we have that we can ask one of the bot
> writers to apply the current regular expressions they have for
> fighting vandalism.
>
> After that all we need is eyeballs, 10 to 20 editors & admins that
> want to monitor the bot RC.
>
> Then we can tell the world that we have a BLP patrol in place, to
> fight abuse in this specific category of articles.
>
> So, David: How do we get the developers to provide us with a recent
> changes page, for BLP?
>
>
> -- Jossi
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