Well, if we are to activate a bot, I would like to see a proper waiting time before suspected vandalism is reverted. An hour or so would be nice. That leaves people enough time to act, which is always better than just an automated bot reverting everything.
Regards, ChrisiPK 2009/1/20 Robert Rohde <[email protected]>: > 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 > _______________________________________________ Commons-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/commons-l
