On 6/22/05, Fastfission <fastfission(a)gmail.com> wrote:
I am sure this is what they are doing, but:
Wouldn't it be easy to detect when article sizes or content fluctuated
wildly and mark that as worth checking into? Wouldn't it also be easy
to check for new articles created without any Wikilinks? That would
probably flag a good heap of the random vandalism right off the bat
(dedicated vandals would of course be more subtle, but that's not a
new thing). A little red flag for profanities would also probably work
as well. This seems like something which could be easily hardwired
into MediaWiki -- if condition X, add a list to this edit to
Special:Checkup or something like that. But I don't know much about
that, and know the developers are few, so it is just a thought, and
one they have probably already had.
FF
a lot of vanadlism involves adding or changeing only one word. With
new articles anything small is worth cheack. However since using
firefox you can check a page about once every 5 seconds (you open them
in lagre batches and view the diffs) it is often quicker and simpler
to cheack everything.
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geni