[Wikipedia-l] Automatic vandalism detection?

[Marco Krohn]

Hi all,

I saw just by chance that [[Rust]] was vandalized by simply adding the word 
"bull shit" to the text. Thinking about this I asked myself if it wouldn't be 
possible to add an automatic detection for this kind of vandalism? Something 
in the way the spam detection programs work. For the beginning a very simple 
heuristic algorithm that detects certain word  / word combinations would be 
sufficient. 

Of course the algorithm should not block the modification, simply because it 
is impossible to prevent false positives, but it could add the page to a new 
special page, making it easier to detect obvious cases of vandalism.

Being still quite new to wikipedia I am not sure if this fits well in the 
wikipedia framework and if it is realizable, but nevertheless I would like to 
hear your comments.

best regards,
  Marco