WIKIPEDIA : HOW DO THEY MANAGE TO KEEP THEIR SITE SO CLEAN?

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WIKIPEDIA : HOW DO THEY MANAGE TO KEEP THEIR SITE SO CLEAN?

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WIKIPEDIA : HOW DO THEY MANAGE TO KEEP THEIR SITE SO CLEAN?

[+] ballot by LCD
ACTIVE Mon Nov 05, 07 - Tue Nov 04, 08
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so any 12 year old high on halloween candy can go and deface and delete main link pages. Each time they do that, I imagine someone goes in and clean it up.

I am surprised that the site looks so put together and clean.

how do they do that?

Lots of history backups for reverting vandalism
Continual peer review
All changes are tracked allowing easy review
Lots of eyeballs enable quick identification of problems and bias
Software is used to track changes so bad edits are quickly identified
Articles are built by consensus
Lots of obsessive mods
Vast majority of editors abide by the 5 pillars

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Voted : Lots of history backups for reverting vandalism
That and accepted rules for what stays, such as a neutral point of view, encouraging the use of references and so forth.

by skylab on Mon Nov 05, 07 12:48pm [+]

I realize that. but until someone goes in and change it, it stays defaced, right?

There must be a lot of people who take their time maintaining that site....

by LCD on Mon Nov 05, 07 1:03pm [+]

Voted : Vast majority of editors abide by the 5 pillars
5 pillars:
1. Wikipedia has a code of conduct.
2. Wikipedia is free content that anyone may edit. Articles can be changed by anyone, and no individual owns any specific article
3. Wikipedia works by building consensus.
4. Wikipedia is an encyclopedia written for the benefit of its readers.
5. Wikipedia does not have firm rules besides the five principles outlined here.

by FiddleFaddleOnLSD on Mon Nov 05, 07 3:08pm [+]

^^ well, that is indeed admirable.

you seems to know wikipedia pretty well, how do they deal with someone who goes and deface pages for a hobby? let's say an automatic script that goes and defaces 10,000 pages an hour, using variety of proxy servers? (so IP block is not possible)

by LCD on Mon Nov 05, 07 5:33pm [+]

I think a firewall and other security things like that can help prevent that. Wiki also has numerous people who can and probably have written scripts. There are various scripts used by people on wiki to track changes.

You can contact the owners of the proxy servers and let them know their system is being abused.

Try these pages for starters:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Vandalism
meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Vandalbot
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Editorial_oversight_and_control

by FiddleFaddleOnLSD on Mon Nov 05, 07 11:27pm [+]

thanks, I appreciate those links. I got quite a bit of valuable insight from it.

by LCD on Tue Nov 06, 07 10:23am [+]

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