Use russian huy for this purposes. 2010/1/28 Platonides <[email protected]>: > Unforgettableid wrote: >> 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. > > Not likely. Both are childish vandalism, but I don't see a connection > between them. > > >> C) Why did no anti-vandalism software automatically revert either edit? > > Probably those edits didn't match any pattern. > > >> 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? > > I see more vandalism based on "He died because he divided by zero". > Perhaps there was something like that said on the radio and all those > people went to the article at once. > > >> 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. > > IP hostname/geolocation can be done by anyone. If it's a registered > user, only checkusers can. They also have access to the User-Agent. > > > >> 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? > > That's probably a breach of their contract. And many ISPs don't use > PPPoE usernames, using instead the phone# > > > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l >
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