[WikiEN-l] Re: Experiment on new pages

Tue Dec 6 02:42:09 UTC 2005

--- Fastfission <fastfission at gmail.com> wrote:

> On a similar topic -- are there any tool for automatic monitoring new
> page creation?
> 
> I was thinking about this in the shower today, and it didn't seem that
> it would be very technically difficult (for a guy who knows some VB
> and PHP) to hook up an (external) program which would monitor the
> Special:Newpages RSS feed, then check the page content itself and
> potentially flag it as something to attend to if it met a set of
> variable characteristics -- i.e., is it less than 5 words long, does
> it contain the word "fart" or "gay" or "penis", was it created by an
> anon, is it wikified, and so forth. More complicated though still
> quite feasible operations could involve automatically putting a sample
> of the content through Google and seeing if anything comes up, or
> potentially checking for incoming links, etc. At the end of the day
> you could ideally run something which would check all of those marked
> as "potential problems" to see if they had been edited extensively or
> deleted, and then make it easy for the editor running the program to
> take a look at what remained. All in all it wouldn't put any more
> stress on the servers than a user who actually checked these things
> manually, and would potentially catch things that were missed by other
> diligant admins.
> 
> Anything like this exist? If not, I might try to cobble one together
> in my (meager) spare time, though I warn you it'll be written in
> Visual Basic... Seems like it would help with at least one problem in
> relation to new pages, if not the more insidious one of false claims
> disguised as encyclopedia articles.

I don't think anything like that exists yet, so please code it! We may even be able to convice
Google to exceed the 1000 search a day limit per IP. 

-- mav

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