Unforgettableid <unforgettableid <at> gmail.com> writes: > A) Did I go too far when I did all the research I described above? Do you > yourself often use the Range Contributions tool[4] for looking at vandals' > ISPs' contributions? > > C) Why did no anti-vandalism software automatically revert either edit? > > D) When I look at the history[9] of [[Patrick Stump]], I see that there were > fourteen edits between 06:51 and 07:03, most vandalism. Yet the vandalistic > edits come from a variety of IP addresses and usernames. The IP addresses > differ widely from each other. Why is this? > > F) Which netblocks do the most vandalism and the least useful editing? > Which cities? Which entire countries? Should those netblocks, cities, and > countries be forced to log in before editing? > > G) Wouldn't it be cool if some web browsers or ISPs would tell Wikipedia > what a contributor's PPPoE username was whenever the contributor made an > edit? > > ^ [1]. > http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Fetus_in_fetu&diff=prev&oldid=339770615 > ^ [2]. http://toolserver.org/~chm/whois.php?ip=174.105.248.31 > ^ [3]. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Road_Runner_High_Speed_Online > ^ [4]. http://toolserver.org/~soxred93/rangecontribs/ > ^ [5]. > http://toolserver.org/~soxred93/rangecontribs/index.php?type=range&ips=174.105.248.31/8&limit=100 > ^ [6]. > http://toolserver.org/~soxred93/rangecontribs/index.php?type=range&ips=174.105.248.31/15&limit=100 > ^ [7]. > http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Patrick_Stump&diff=prev&oldid=339703861 > ^ [8]. http://toolserver.org/~chm/whois.php?ip=174.106.99.246 > ^ [9]. > http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Patrick_Stump&action=history
A followup: Never mind B) and E). My original post on wikien-l was a repost of a message I had already posted to wikitech-l. (Wikitech-l has told me to repost it here.) But Aryeh Gregor on wikitech-l has answered[11] B) and E) to my satisfaction now. ^ [11]. http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.science.linguistics.wikipedia.technical/46834/focus=46838 _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
