Am 28.09.2015 um 20:42 schrieb John Erling Blad:
> Probability of detection (PoD) is central to fighting vandalism, and that does
> not imply making the vandalism less visible.
> 
> Symmetric statements makes vandalism appear in more places, making it more
> visible, and thereby increasing the chance for detection.

If such "magic" changes show up on the watchlist and in the page history, I
agree. Then they are edits (or at least pseudo-edits). The simplest way to
achieve this is by using bots.

> If you isolate the vandalism it will be less visible, but then it will be more
> likely that no one will ever spot it.
> 
> And yes, PoD is a military thingy and as such is disliked by the
> wikicommunities. Still sometimes it is wise to check out what is actually
> working and why it is working.

Isolation reduces the impact. I think Probability of Detection is actually a
very good metric when thinking about vandalism. But it needs to be weight
against impact/visibility.

For Wikibase integration in Wikipedia, we worked to make the PoD grow along with
the impact: pages that use info from wikidata will have changes to that data
show up in the watchlist and recen5tchanges (integration with the page history
is still planned).

-- 
Daniel Kinzler
Senior Software Developer

Wikimedia Deutschland
Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e.V.

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