Wikipedia talk:Recent changes patrol/Archives/2007/April

Need more help on subtle vandalism
Alright so I've been doing some experiments over the past few days. Basically I take an RC page with ip-only, main space only. I let it up for 5mins so the bots and rc-patrollers are done with them. Then I go thru them one by one, and it's not uncommon that I can find 5-10 subtle vandalism unreverted. These are all things that don't have watched words, almost all from new or recent IPs so they are not watched, but they are very obvious vandalism. I think at this point all the obvious stuff is well handled, the bots and scripts are doing a very good job, and any -50,000 chars edit is gonna have a good 20 people checking it in seconds, but we need more people to do what I did. Filter IP edits, and get a popup script to show the actual diff (not the summary) and you'll find a huge number of easy to spot edits that would otherwise go unnoticed. To take it to the next level, if anyone is able to do so, a tool or modification to one of the current tools like VP would be to have a list of edits by IP addresses with the actual diff on mouse-over, but then each entry would be checked and removed from the list by the program as soon as it gets edited by a logged in user. Elfguy 04:21, 21 April 2007 (UTC)