[WikiEN-l] JuryBot (was: Scott McCloud on Wikipedia)

[geni]

On 2/27/07, Delirium <delirium at hackish.org> wrote:
> Part of the problem from my perspective is figuring out what to do in
> some of these tasks.  I typically do this "janitorial" work in
> bursts---I'll do a bunch of recent-changes patrolling for three weeks,
> because I'm in the mood for it, or clear out copyright violations for a
> day, then I won't do anything for two months.  When I come back to one
> of these tasks after an absence, it takes concerted effort to navigate
> the web of rules and templates and informal policies.  Even simple stuff
> like, "so what's the current policy on warning/blocking vandals, and
> which of the 100+ user warning templates should I use?".

Test1-7. The rest are for people who enjoy categorising too much.


> On the topic of bots but with a slightly different intent, some
> automation of drudgery would help make this work more appealing. Nobody
> likes to do work that is super-repetitive and requires no human
> judgment.  Clearing out the batches of images tagged "orphan fair use"
> is annoying and I usually avoid doing it, because at least 50% of them
> are trivially mistagged due to not being orphaned (perhaps they were
> when tagged, but they aren't now), and so I end up spending most of my
> time just deleting the template and pasting in a "not orphaned" edit
> summary.  A bot could do that for me, letting me as the human look only
> at the *actually* orphaned fair-use images to decide whether to delete
> them or not.

Already exists. Except that it also delete the orphans.
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geni