[WikiEN-l] Neo-nazis to attack wikipedia

Tue Feb 8 00:26:52 UTC 2005

Karl A. Krueger (kkrueger at whoi.edu) [050208 05:51]:

> One place where a few more technical tools might be useful is in
> ascertaining where the problematic pages are, and bringing it to more
> people's attention when a page goes into edit-war.
> As the volume of editing on Wikipedia increases, it's harder and harder
> to discern anything about current problems by looking at Recent Changes
> -- there are hundreds of changes every hour.  I'll notice an edit war if
> it shows up on my watchlist or WP:RFC, but if nobody is watching and the
> editors involved don't post to WP:RFC (or don't know about it), the
> problem can persist indefinitely.

Not technical tools, but [[WP:AN/3RR]] and [[WP:AN/I]] (and parent page
[[WP:AN]]) are being used as alert pages at present, with some success.
Think of them as a PA message to the janitors to get out there with mop,
bucket and M16.

- d.