[Wikipedia-l] Anti-vandalism proposal

[Stanley Wurangian]

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On MediaWiki patrol feature, multiple edits on one page still need to be
patrolled per single edit. This is inefficient (bug 8697). We from
id.wikipedia requested that feature but still not start to use it
because of that issue.

Stanley

Finne Boonen wrote:
> On 10/30/07, Casey Brown <cbrown1023.ml at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On 10/30/07, Pingveno <pingveno at comcast.net> wrote:
>>> I am working on a new anti-vandalism application for Wikipedia and the
>>> other
>>> Wikimedia projects. Before I get really deep into coding, I need to make
>>> sure
>>> that it will actually be used.
>>>
>>> The basic problem that the application addresses is vandalism getting
>>> through
>>> Wikipedia's vandalism catching systems. The Wikipedia community does an
>>> excellent job overall, but every once in a while vandalism (subtle or
>>> obvious) gets through. I personally have come across a few pieces of
>>> vandalism that were months old.
>>>
>>> The way the problem is addressed is to gather all edits together on a
>>> central
>>> server. Approved users would connect to the server and examine the edits
>>> for
>>> vandalism. If a certain number of users approve the edit it is removed
>>> from
>>> the pool. Edits marked as vandalism ("condemned") would be removed after
>>> the
>>> vandalism has been entirely dealt with: revert, warn, speedy delete, etc.
>>>
>>> There are various tricks I can put on the central server to reduce the
>>> number
>>> of edits that need to be reviewed. The most obvious is a whitelist, but
>>> there
>>> are many other techniques such as combining edits made in close succession
>>> by
>>> a single editor to a single article.
>>>
>>> Now to my questions.
>>> - Does this sound like a good idea in general?
>>> - Is there already a project similar to mine that I would be unnecessarily
>>> duplicating?
>>
>> There might be, see
>> http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:FlaggedRevswhich is set to
>> begin beta-testing on the German Wikipedia very soon.
>>
> 
> Or the old patrolling feature, which is part of mediawiki but not
> turned on on all projects, last time I checked nl.wp is using it, you
> need have an account that's a few days old, (but it's been a while)
> it.wp was/is also using it, you might need moderator or other
> privileges.
> 
> Finne
> 
>> - A significant number of users are needed to make the system work. Will the
>>> system probably be popular enough to get this minimum number of editors?
>>>
>>> Cheers!
>>> Aaron DeVore
>>>
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>>
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