On 16/05/2010, WereSpielChequers <[email protected]> wrote: > 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.
Theoretically, the nearest thing to a magic bullet should be flagged protection. It somewhat reduces the workload of people checking their watchlists and is more consistent, because things that should have been checked, will have been so by at least once (eventually), the software doesn't forget they haven't been reviewed, whereas normally they have to be spotted withiin 2 days or so before disappearing off watchlists. Right now there's no guarantee that the edits have been reviewed at all, and flagged protection should at least give that level of guarantee. > WereSpielChequers -- -Ian Woollard _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
