[WikiEN-l] More Seigenthaler fallout

Wed Dec 14 22:30:30 UTC 2005

On 13/12/05, Daniel Mayer <maveric149 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> --- Jimmy Wales <jwales at wikia.com> wrote:
>
> > Matt Brown wrote:
> > > My belief is that in general we should not remove things from page
> > > history so easily.
> >
> > My belief is that in general we should be aggressive about removing
> > vandalism from the page history.  If there was an automated way to go
> > through on a regular basis and remove reverted versions from the
> > history, I would strongly support that we do so.
>
> I think that getting that set-up should be a top development priority. One idea:
>
> A bot with sysop rights could be able to detect admin reverts fairly
> easily and delete both the vandalized versions that were reverted
> along with the admin's revert version (which would be pointless
> clutter at that point).

One problem is that this also removes the edits from the history of
that user, which makes noticing a pattern of vandalism from a single
user tougher. Not sure how significant this is, and there could well
be a workaround, but...

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- Andrew Gray
  andrew.gray at dunelm.org.uk