[Wikipedia-l] Re: [Wikitech-l] Anons can no longer make minor edits

Sun Jan 5 17:58:00 UTC 2003

> I agree with that. But, maybe we shouldn't abandon Jonathan's idea, but
> use it for soft security. Similar to a prior suggestion of mine:

> Those who want can activate a user option that marks "suspicious" edits.
> That would include
> * edits by IPs (anons) that remove more than 20% of the article (in bytes)
> * edits (by IPs, or anyone) that add certain keywords (f**k, etc.)
> * edits by IPs whose edits have been "rolled back" (with the function)
> lately
> * edits by IPs who are listed on the Vandalism in Progress page

> These are just some ideas that come to mind. More can be added. This
> won't find all vandals, and will have a false alert once in a while, but
> could improve the "hit rate" on malicious edits.

How about giving sysops the ability to flag certain IPs as "suspicious"? I  
wouldn't want to extend that ability to signed in users for various  
reasons, though.

Personally, I think that having talk pages and a "new message" indicator  
for anons would go a long way to resolving many problems. I've put that in  
my pipeline.

Regards,

Erik