> 1. Simple vandalism being missed (Carcharoth) > Message: 1 > Date: Sat, 15 May 2010 14:52:56 +0100 > From: Carcharoth <[email protected]> > Subject: [WikiEN-l] Simple vandalism being missed > To: English Wikipedia <[email protected]> > Message-ID: > <[email protected]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 > > I was recently looking up which countries were in the Congo Basin, and > the version of the article I found was this: > > http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Congo_Basin&oldid=359085351 > > The list of countries is clearly missing. > > It was removed with this edit: > > http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Congo_Basin&diff=357222409&oldid=353051579 > > That was 20 April 2010 (I've now restored the list). > > Has anyone done a recent study to see how and why vandalism like that > is missed and how common it is for such things to be missed? > > Carcharoth
I don't know about a formal study, but I'm finding ancient vandalism more rarely which implies there is less of it now. There is no single magic bullet for this. As I see it the hardest vandalism to stop at present is the random removal of a small amount of content via an IP that is only used for one vandalism. IPs and accounts that go on vandalism sprees usually get spotted quickly and if the Hugglers miss them eventually they will vandalise something on an active editor's watchlist. But vandals who show restraint are harder to spot. As for dealing with it, our edit filters have been improving, more stuff is being bot reverted, Huggle, recent changes patrol and Newpage patrol deal with the vast majority of vandalism almost in real time. And we have other backstops available http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Database_reports/Uncategorized_and_unreferenced_biographies_of_living_people has turned out to be quite useful at identifying recently vandalised BLPs, and Poop patrol is now in alpha test. Overall I think we are getting faster at dealing with vandalism, though there is still stuff there, I recently deleted a BLP of someone who had been "raised in the woods by bears". But that had only been up for a few months, nowadays I very rarely find vandalism that has been up for a whole year. WereSpielChequers _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
