The situation should improve if they *ever* enable flagged versions on
the English wikipedia. At the moment detecting vandalism is a bit
hit-and-miss; flagged versions should enable 100% checking.
That wouldn't completely stop vandalism, but it will greatly reduce
it. This should be true even if we just use the flags as a technique
to mark whether or not articles have been checked or not, rather than
determining whether they should be seen.
On 11/02/2010, Carcharoth <carcharothwp(a)googlemail.com> wrote:
On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 3:54 PM, Thomas Dalton
<thomas.dalton(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
On 11 February 2010 15:48, Carcharoth
<carcharothwp(a)googlemail.com> wrote:
The latest example is here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Military_science&diff=3393092…
[I'm not at the right computer at the moment, so hopefully someone
will fix that]
Fixed.
Thanks.
So is it
as big a problem as it seems? What percentage of vandalism
doesn't get caught for days or weeks?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Aetheling/Vandalism_survival
That's a pretty good study, albeit with a very small sample size (100
articles).
"an estimated 10% of all vandalism endures for months and even years
indicates that some new tools and strategies are needed for rooting
out the most subtle and persistent forms of vandalism"
Quite a strong claim there.
The talk page discussion is interesting.
Carcharoth
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