By the way, I ask those questions having read the bots user page. It is apparently quite effective, indicating to me that this user causes minimal disruption.
On Mon, Dec 29, 2008 at 4:11 PM, Brian <[email protected]> wrote: > What percentage of his page moves were not picked up automatically by a > bot? > > What percentage of this users vandalism is not picked up by a bot? > > Why is the ISP responsible for what he dumps into Wikipedia, rather than > Wikipedia, as it allows itself to be a dumping ground? The Viacom/Youtube > lawsuit demonstrates that this is a legal grey area, thus, I see little > ground on which to punish the entire ip range of the ISP. > > Why are machine learning bots that are trained on previous vandalism in > order to detect new vandalism not being used? They have been developed. Why > is the Foundation not funding their further development? > > I believe the direction of this thread has been all wrong. > > Peace, > > > > On Mon, Dec 29, 2008 at 4:07 PM, Soxred93 <[email protected]> wrote: > >> The problem with that is that many articles we have would not be >> found in any dictionary. >> >> X! >> >> On Dec 29, 2008, at 6:02 PM [Dec 29, 2008 ], Ian Woollard wrote: >> >> > On 29/12/2008, Joe Szilagyi <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Allow blocking on a more granular level, if we know his ISP, and lock >> >> out moves and redirects for the whole damn ISPs, and specifically >> >> point the finger back in the block message: Blocked because of >> >> JarlaxleArtemis/Grawp with a nice shiny link to his long-term abuse >> >> page. >> > >> > It probably wouldn't work because of proxies and people that would >> > emulate/help him. >> > >> > Still, ideas that would affect less people rather than more like that >> > are almost certainly IMO the way to go; for example restricting the >> > range of characters and checking that the move title consists of words >> > in a dictionary before permitting non admins or users with a small >> > number of edits to complete a move might be desirable. >> > >> >> - Joe >> > >> > -- >> > -Ian Woollard >> > >> > We live in an imperfectly imperfect world. Life in a perfectly >> > imperfect world would be much better. >> > >> > _______________________________________________ >> > WikiEN-l mailing list >> > [email protected] >> > To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: >> > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> WikiEN-l mailing list >> [email protected] >> To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l >> > > > > -- > You have successfully failed! > -- You have successfully failed! _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
