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

Sun Jan 5 17:59:22 UTC 2003

|From: Magnus Manske <magnus.manske at epost.de>
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|Date: Sun, 05 Jan 2003 18:46:35 +0100
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|Jimmy Wales wrote:
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|>The ability to signal to others that an edit is minor is useful and should
|>be continued.  Denying this ability to anon users is reasonable, and does not
|>prevent them from making any edits.  Soft security at its finest.
|>  
|>
|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.
|
|Magnus
|

These suggestions by Magnus follow the lines of the most effective
first-line mail filters, which have been shown to work very well
without needlessly restricting information flow.

Tom P.
O88