[WikiEN-l] Blocking of School IPs

[Steven Mandzik]

Great idea. Is there also a summer of editing or article building?

Steve

On Jan 9, 2008 7:23 PM, Ivan Beschastnikh <ivan at cs.washington.edu> wrote:

>
> On Wed, 9 Jan 2008, Noah Salzman wrote:
>
> >
> > On Jan 8, 2008, at 10:43 PM, Steve Bennett wrote:
> >
> >>  IMHO we should be putting more effort into brilliant vandalism
> >> detection and rollback
> >
> >
> > 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.
>
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