[WikiEN-l] Unreverted vandalism

[Thomas Dalton]

On 11 February 2010 17:17, Carcharoth <carcharothwp at googlemail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 5:05 PM, Andrew Gray <andrew.gray at dunelm.org.uk> wrote:
>
>> b) Use reversions. Sample a thousand uses of rollback from the recent
>> changes list, find time between that edit and the one it was
>> reverting.
>
> That one sounds easier. If only people wouldn't use rollback inappropriately...

Looking for rollback edits is a good way to find vandalism that was
reverted quickly, but as Andrew says it won't find old vandalism on
articles with subsequent edits, which is essential if the intention it
to find out how much vandalism takes a long time to be reverted.