[WikiEN-l] Blocking of School IPs

[Ivan Beschastnikh]

On Wed, 9 Jan 2008, Noah Salzman wrote:

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> On Jan 8, 2008, at 10:43 PM, Steve Bennett wrote:
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>>  IMHO we should be putting more effort into brilliant vandalism
>> detection and rollback
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>
> This area is ripe for exploration. Has anyone looked into "Summer of
> Code" type projects for this sort of thing? The signatures for the
> great majority of vandalism are not difficult to understand.

I was a student and a mentor in summer of code and I think this is an 
ideal project for this program. I'm not sure if the wikimedia foundation 
is taking part in the next summer of code, but this should certainly be 
considered. I think you'll have no dirth of excited cs students to take on 
some of the more elaborate or time consuming coding projects, however, you 
do need to find someone to run and organize this program.

ivan.