User talk:Hijump60

Hey thanks for helping fix Wikipedia! I was able to revert the edit that fast because I am using an anti-vandalism program called Huggle. (don't ask, the guy who made it is kind of eccentric) Thanks again! :) Thingg⊕⊗ 17:03, 18 February 2009 (UTC)

One more quick qustion Thingg. Do you get some type of alarm that I made an edit? And if you did how come you didn't catch the other guy's edit? Just out of curiousity...

131.231.185.42 (talk) 17:11, 18 February 2009 (UTC)

The program scans the recent changes page, which shows every recent edit that is made on the whole site (this is a feature of the MediaWiki wiki software the Wikipedia uses) and based on a variety of tests, decides if the edit might be vandalism. If it decides it might be, it sends a diff of the edit to a queue in the program and the human user views it and decides if it's vandalism or not. If they think it is, the program can revert the edit and warn the user who vandalized almost instantaneously. The program can communicate with the wiki software through MediaWiki's built in API. Thingg⊕⊗ 17:28, 18 February 2009 (UTC)