On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 11:55 PM, Unforgettableid <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi all, > > I was curious about a vandalistic edit[1]: the logged-out vandal, who uses a > US-based home broadband ISP[2][3], has made only one edit: the vandalistic > edit > I mentioned. The edit was made two days ago. I reverted it, then tried using > Soxred93's useful Range Contributions tool[4] to see if any of the 255 IP > addresses closest to the vandal's IP had ever made any other edits. Nope.[5] > In fact, not even any of the closest 131072 have done so.[6] But when I > expanded my search to the closest 262144, I found lots of edits over the past > few weeks, made by a variety of IPs. I looked at the first seven. One was > vandalism: an edit[7] to [[Patrick Stump]]. Someone else has since reverted > it. It was made by another user from the same ISP.[8] I am just curious: > > 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? > > B) What do you think are the chances that the same person made both the > first[1] and the second[7] vandalistic edits? The IP addresses' binary > representations are quite different. > > 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? > > E) When comparing two vandals' edits in other situations, is there any quick > way for editors to find out both IPs' hostnames, User-Agents, Accept-Charset > strings, Accept-Language strings, screen resolutions, and/or IP geolocation > results? I do very little vandalism removal, so I myself am not sure. > > 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? > > If you reply to only one of A), B), C), D), E), F), or G) then please use a > different subject line than I used. And add a "(was: ...)" tag at the end of > the subject line. That way, it'll be easier for others to follow just the > parts > of the discussion that they want to follow. > > Kind regards, > --[[User:Unforgettableid]] > > ^ [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 > > > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l >
This should be on wikien-l, not here. -Chad _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
