On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 11:55 PM, Unforgettableid <unforgettabl...@gmail.com> 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?
Most of the people here aren't enwiki vandal hunters. Why don't you ask wikien-l instead? > 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. Possible but unlikely. If you look at the reverse DNS, one is cpe-174-105-248-31.insight.res.rr.com and one is cpe-174-106-099-246.nc.res.rr.com. The latter looks like it's probably from RoadRunner in North Carolina, while the former has "insight" instead of "nc" -- not sure what that is, but they're probably geographically different groups of customers. > C) Why did no anti-vandalism software automatically revert either edit? This list is for MediaWiki development and Wikimedia systems adminstration. The various auto-reverting bots are maintained by entirely different people, and you should ask them. > 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? Maybe because they're totally different people? > 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. You can find out their reverse DNS and whois information through standard tools, such as the command-line utilities "dig" and "whois" or various websites that will run them for you. Geolocation services are provided by a variety of websites using different databases of varying quality. The rest is not available to unprivileged users, although some is available to checkusers (at least for logged-in users, dunno about anonymous). > 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? That's a policy decision that would be made either by Wikimedia or individual wikis, not by devs/sysadmins, so this isn't the right list. > 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 not very useful for people who don't use PPPoE, which is probably a large majority. We do have arrangements with some ISPs, like AOL, to send X-Forwarded-For headers so we can display users' real IP addresses rather than those of proxies. It's very unlikely that ISPs would be willing to give us their customers' names -- their customers pay them, we don't. > 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. I don't think this discussion will go on for much longer anyway, and people would not appreciate it if I posted seven times as many responses to a thread that's largely off-topic to begin with. _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
