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See also [[Appropedia talk:Anti-vandalism measures|the talk page]], for further discussion.  
See also [[Appropedia talk:Anti-vandalism measures|the talk page]], for further discussion.  
==Suggestions==
*implement a bot or bots taken (with permission) from Wikipedia spam & vandal-fighters. E.g. {{Wikipedia p|User:Tawkerbot|Tawkerbot.}}
*ban page creation by anons & new accounts (like Wikipedia)
*implement soft-protection for pages that are spam targets
*reverse Turing tests
==See also==
*[[Appropedia:Recent changes patrol]]
==Interwiki links==
*[[meta:Anti-vandalism ideas]]
*[[Wikipedia:Project:Bot policy]]
*[[Wikipedia:Project:Spam]]
*[[Wikipedia:Project:Vandalism]] - and note the '''See also''' links at the bottom.
*[[meta:Vandalbot]] - a script which automatically performs some kind of malicious edit or similar operation to a wiki at high rate.


[[Category:Appropedia maintenance]]
[[Category:Appropedia maintenance]]

Revision as of 07:52, 17 April 2007

The most effective anti-vandalism measure is an active community. We have a team of people (the Recent Changes Patrol monitoring all edits made, and vandalism and spam are quickly reverted.

We are also looking at other measures such as bots (as used with great efficiency at Wikipedia) to monitor and quickly revert vandalism.

See also the talk page, for further discussion.

Suggestions

  • implement a bot or bots taken (with permission) from Wikipedia spam & vandal-fighters. E.g. Template:Wikipedia p
  • ban page creation by anons & new accounts (like Wikipedia)
  • implement soft-protection for pages that are spam targets
  • reverse Turing tests

See also

Interwiki links

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