A bot is a very good idea. While I don't want to besmirch people who do follow recent changes, in my experience vandalism that gets through tends to be very long lived. I would guess this is because there are so many files and proportionally far fewer people watchlisting each page compared to other wikis.
-Robert Rohde On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 9:58 AM, Al Tally <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 5:47 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> I don't think a bot could get this kind of vandalism. Using a page >> blanking bot could be nice but most work has to be done by humans. >> >> I am happy to notice when I am patrolling new edits I get a often a edit >> conflict with somebody else that is also reverting the vandalism. But I am >> afraid not everything can be found while paroling. >> >> Does Flagged Revisions also works on images? >> >> Best regards, >> Huib > > I'm not sure how familiar you are with anti-vandal bots, but English > Wikipedia has several such bots that do an excellent job. ClueBot, for > example, would have easily caught that vandalism. We have a lot of coders > who would be willing to run such a bot on Commons, with modifications if > necessary. > > -- > Alex > (User:Majorly) > > _______________________________________________ > Commons-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/commons-l > > _______________________________________________ Commons-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/commons-l
