[WikiEN-l] An actual RC patrol? (was Openness is a means to an end. Nothing more)

Thu Dec 1 17:19:00 UTC 2005

On Thu, 2005-12-01 at 17:10 +0000, David Gerard wrote:
> geni wrote:
> >On 12/1/05, Daniel Mayer <maveric149 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> 
> >> (better RC patrol features, trust networks to filter RC and watchlists,
> >> article validation, etc).
> 
> >RC patrol is reaching it's pratical limit. I'm seeing more vandalism
> >on my watchlist and no matter how good the people doing it there is
> >simply no way for them to know if a large percentage of it is true or
> >not
> 
> 
> Would it be an idea to make RC patrol organised, i.e. people (admins
> or not) sign on for shifts, checking all edits in a given block of
> time? Two patrollers for each time period should be enough, three or
> four for evenings US time. You do RC patrol - would something like
> this make sense?
> 
> (I don't know how long the time periods would be - an hour? 30
> minutes? 10 minutes?)

Unworkable - who knows when they can do it.

Just queue new articles so they have to go via an admin before
joining the main namespace (they can sit in New: before that).

Not much code.