[WikiEN-l] Fwd: contacting schools

[Aude]

Follow up here...  I have looked through each individual contribution from
the school and do see repeat offenders, with similar edits on different
days.  The student did insert a bunch of names as part of the vandalism, one
which could be the specific kid responsible.  I think the school might be
able to deal with or maybe restrict the specific student(s) from using
Wikipedia.  (is that possible?)

I also looked at meta:XFF Project<http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/XFF_Project>,
though don't see any schools listed there. Not sure if that's something they
can do.  If schools can qualify as a "trusted XFF", I can suggest that,
should the problem continue and they want to try using XFF.

-Aude

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Aude <audevivere at gmail.com>
Date: May 1, 2007 8:09 PM
Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] contacting schools
To: English Wikipedia <wikien-l at lists.wikimedia.org>

The talk page there seems rather inactive, though I notice that Durova has
contacted schools with some success.  I'll see what Durova suggests, though
welcome any other advice on what schools realistically can do, short of
asking for an anon. only block on the IP.

I'd be curious to know how many different kids are responsible for vandalism
incidents from the IP.  If it's just a small number of kids, maybe something
more specific can be done without affecting the rest of the school.  Though,
I'm not sure what.  Not sure a teacher or anyone could really convince a
student to behave while on the computer.  Or if some technical restrictions
can be in place for specific kids.

-Aude

On 5/1/07, Pilotguy <pilotguy.wikipedia at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Why not file a report or ask someone over at WP:ABUSE? They usually have
> experience in handling these types of situations.
>
> On 5/1/07, Aude <audevivere at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Does anyone have experience contacting schools regarding vandalism and
> can
> > offer advice/best practices?
> >
> > I had to block one of the schools one of the jurisdictions where I
> > attended
> > school, and comfortable contacting them.  They can possibly track down
> > which
> > student did the latest vandalism, but not really sure what the school
> can
> > do
> > to stop them.  I only speculate that it's a relatively small number of
> > other
> > kids responsible for previous incidents of vandalism from the
> > school.  Does
> > that sound reasonable?
> >
> > The majority of edits from the school IP are not constructive, but some
> > are
> > constructive.  The volume of vandalism is moderate, but manageable (on
> our
> > end) and not high as I've seen with other schools.  And have no idea how
> > many students and staff there edit with accounts.  I prefer not simply
> > blocking the whole school because of some bad kids.
> >
> > What other things can the school network administrator and staff
> do?  Any
> > suggestions?
> >
> > --Aude
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