Comments on: Vandal Assault http://blog.citizendium.org/2007/02/16/vandal-assault/ Weblog about the Citizendium project and its Citizens. Thu, 28 Aug 2008 12:45:35 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.1.2 By: AGuest http://blog.citizendium.org/2007/02/16/vandal-assault/#comment-1884 AGuest Sat, 17 Feb 2007 07:03:18 +0000 http://blog.citizendium.org/2007/02/16/vandal-assault/#comment-1884 Jason You're aware that an anti pagemove vandalism bot does in fact exist for MediaWiki and has been used a fair bit at Wikipedia. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:VoABot_II). There's also a more generic anti vandalism bot @ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:AntiVandalBot Jason

You’re aware that an anti pagemove vandalism bot does in fact exist for MediaWiki and has been used a fair bit at Wikipedia. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:VoABot_II). There’s also a more generic anti vandalism bot @ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:AntiVandalBot

]]> By: Jason Potkanski http://blog.citizendium.org/2007/02/16/vandal-assault/#comment-1889 Jason Potkanski Sat, 17 Feb 2007 08:00:59 +0000 http://blog.citizendium.org/2007/02/16/vandal-assault/#comment-1889 Bots are reactive. Extensions are proactive/preventative. Why burn CPU cycles with external connections when the software itself should provide the functionality? -jtp Bots are reactive. Extensions are proactive/preventative. Why burn CPU cycles with external connections when the software itself should provide the functionality?

-jtp

]]> By: Citizendium Blog » Our registration policy - how we check identities http://blog.citizendium.org/2007/02/16/vandal-assault/#comment-3262 Citizendium Blog » Our registration policy - how we check identities Tue, 06 Mar 2007 23:15:40 +0000 http://blog.citizendium.org/2007/02/16/vandal-assault/#comment-3262 [...] from editors.  More recently, as of February 16, we have shut down self-registration on account of rampant vandalism.  We have had no vandalism either before or after the self-registration [...] […] from editors.  More recently, as of February 16, we have shut down self-registration on account of rampant vandalism.  We have had no vandalism either before or after the self-registration […]

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