[WikiEN-l] Better tools to fight Wiki vandalism

Wed Sep 21 16:25:54 UTC 2005

You might want to check out CDVF. It has most of that: [[WP:CDVF]]
 Ryan

 On 9/20/05, Frederic <frederic at conrotte.be> wrote:
>
> Hi Wikipedians,
>
> just a question regarding Wiki Vandalism on Wikipedia.
>
> On this page http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Recentchanges, would it
> be possible to display a symbol in front of the line (let's say "V" for
> Vandalism)
> if some facts are met about the changes on an article ?
> E.g. : if size has decreased of more than 20%
> Another way would be to compute a level of probability of vandalism based
> on some criteria, a bit like SpamAssasin is working on killing spams.
>
> Another tool that would usefull to fight spam would be to create a page
> like http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Recentchanges
> but with differences directly displayed, without the full articles. I mean
> you would have all the differences on the latests articles amended displayed
> on one page.
> Ok ok It would cost maybe too much CPU to do this, but this could be a
> tool reserved for "significant Wikipedia contributors"
>
> Fred
>
> (Sorry if this topic has already been discussed/solved but I didn't find a
> way to query the ML's history)
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