[Wikia-l] Abuse Filter extension

[Master Conjurer]

I disagree.  In my experience on Wikia, human effort has always been
superior to automated features.  Whenever somebody blanks a page on one of
the wikis I use, it never takes more than an hour to undo it and leave a
pleasant message on their talk page (below the usual {{Welcome}} ) along the
lines of, "Hi there.  I saw what you did.  Any chance you'd rather help us
out?"  It works just as often and has no chance of stopping a genuinely
helpful edit the way automated features often do.

//masterConjurer (talk <http://www.wikia.com/wiki/User_talk:Master_Conjurer>
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On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 10:47 PM, Jimmy Wales <jwales at wikia-inc.com> wrote:

> I really support this kind of thinking... I missed whatever follow-up
> there was about this, but I love the concept of turning page blanking
> actions into constructive edits, etc.
>
> I think most vandalism is just people testing to see if they can really
> edit (even after all these years of wiki, people don't believe it), and
> if the filter pops up and says "hey, how are you? maybe you'd like to
> spend your time more usefully, you might be happier that way" then most
> people will respond well to it.
>
> Daniel Friesen wrote:
> > There was an interesting posting to wikitech earlier about Abuse Filter.
> > Any thoughts on getting the extension on Wikia?
> >
> > Rather than just serious filtering of bad behavior it looks like there
> > are interesting soft filters that can spit out a message to the user and
> > ask for confirmation.
> > The fact that such a message set for page blanking turned 56 of 78 page
> > blanking actions into constructive wiki edits is very intriguing.
> >
> > I can definitely see a good use for that kind of feature, especially
> > fitting in with Wikia's ideas for getting new contributors to a wiki.
> > I can think of a good number of filters I could put on the Narutopedia
> > which would give a friendly message telling a newbie "You're trying to
> > do this? It's not normally considered polite here, maybe you wanted to
> > do this instead?" to help point out things which normally would end up
> > with someone from the community reverting, tagging for deletion, or
> whatnot.
> > Bleh, to bad it can't catch C&P page moves or copyvios from
> LeafNinja.com.
> >
>
>
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