The situation should improve if they *ever* enable flagged versions on the English wikipedia. At the moment detecting vandalism is a bit hit-and-miss; flagged versions should enable 100% checking.
That wouldn't completely stop vandalism, but it will greatly reduce it. This should be true even if we just use the flags as a technique to mark whether or not articles have been checked or not, rather than determining whether they should be seen. On 11/02/2010, Carcharoth <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 3:54 PM, Thomas Dalton <[email protected]> > wrote: >> On 11 February 2010 15:48, Carcharoth <[email protected]> wrote: >>> The latest example is here: >>> >>> http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Military_science&diff=339309229&oldid=337736730 >>> >>> [I'm not at the right computer at the moment, so hopefully someone >>> will fix that] >> >> Fixed. > > Thanks. > >>> So is it as big a problem as it seems? What percentage of vandalism >>> doesn't get caught for days or weeks? >> >> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Aetheling/Vandalism_survival >> >> That's a pretty good study, albeit with a very small sample size (100 >> articles). > > "an estimated 10% of all vandalism endures for months and even years > indicates that some new tools and strategies are needed for rooting > out the most subtle and persistent forms of vandalism" > > Quite a strong claim there. > > The talk page discussion is interesting. > > Carcharoth > > _______________________________________________ > WikiEN-l mailing list > [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l > -- -Ian Woollard _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
