[WikiEN-l] Dealing with juvenile vandalism

[William Pietri]

Ray Saintonge wrote:
>>> Developping some kind of working 
>>> arrangement with the school involved would make more sense.  Work with 
>>> them to identify and deal with the offenders at a local level. [...]
>>>       
>> Might this call for some sort of bot that watches for IP range warnings 
>> and sends emails to any contacts listed on the talk page for the IP? The 
>> system would take a while to get started, but it seems like it would 
>> help close a feedback loop that is now often slow or broken.
>>     
> Absolutely.  Talking to people is always a good way to solve problems.  
> It will take a while to build contact lists, but it's always good to 
> srive for long-term solutions.
>   

Agreed.

I don't have time to build this myself, but I have suggested it here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Bot_requests#TattletaleBot


William


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