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From: Lyudmila Vaseva <vaseva@mi.fu-berlin.de>
Date: Thu, 4 Apr 2019 11:34:58 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Start writing out vandalism
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\section{Vandalism on Wikipedia}
-Edit filters were initially introduced as a vandalism prevention mechanism (one of several).
+According to Wikipedia's newspaper, the Signpost, edit filters were initially introduced as a vandalism prevention mechanism (one of several)~\cite{Signpost2009}.
The aim of this section is to provide a better understanding of vandalism on Wikipedia. (What is vandalism, and what not; who engages in vandalism; who is striving to prevent it and with what means)
-\url{https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Vandalism}
+%What is vandalism
+
+According to EN Wikipedia's policy~\cite{Wikipedia:Vandalism}, vandalism means ``intentionally making abusive edits to Wikipedia'' or, more specifically ``editing (or other behavior) deliberately intended to obstruct or defeat the project's purpose, which is to create a free encyclopedia''.
+Vandalism includes ``malicious removal of encyclopedic content, or the changing of such content beyond all recognition, without any regard to our core content policies of neutral point of view (which does not mean no point of view), verifiability and no original research''
+as well as ``adding irrelevant obscenities or crude humor to a page, illegitimately blanking pages, and inserting obvious nonsense into a page''
+and ``[a]busive creation or usage of user accounts and IP addresses''.
+
+Wikipedians have elaborated a whole vandalism typology(?).
+
+%What is not vandalism
-"This is not a noticeboard for vandalism. Report vandalism from specific users at Wikipedia:Administrator intervention against vandalism, or Wikipedia:Requests for page protection for specific pages.
-Not to be confused with Wikipedia:Disruptive editing."
+Disruptive editing
-"This page documents an English Wikipedia policy."
+%Who engages in vandalism (and why?)
-"This page in a nutshell: Intentionally making abusive edits to Wikipedia will result in a block."
+%Who is striving to prevent vandalism? How do they go about it?
-DEF Vandalism:
-"On Wikipedia, vandalism has a very specific meaning: editing (or other behavior) deliberately intended to obstruct or defeat the project's purpose, which is to create a free encyclopedia, in a variety of languages, presenting the sum of all human knowledge."
-"The malicious removal of encyclopedic content, or the changing of such content beyond all recognition, without any regard to our core content policies of neutral point of view (which does not mean no point of view), verifiability and no original research, is a deliberate attempt to damage Wikipedia. There, of course, exist more juvenile forms of vandalism, such as adding irrelevant obscenities or crude humor to a page, illegitimately blanking pages, and inserting obvious nonsense into a page. Abusive creation or usage of user accounts and IP addresses may also constitute vandalism."
+Since Wikipedia is a ``do-it-yourself'' project, every editor who notices vandalism is called upon to help fixing it.
+There is a formal process for reporting users who engage in vandalism %TODO look up Administrator intervention against vandalism
+and requesting page protection for frequently vandalised pages. %TODO quote
+And there are also users who specifically dedicate substantial amount of their Wikipedia contributions to fighting vandalism.
+
+These dedicated vandal fighters mostly do so with the aid of some (semi or fully) automated tools which significally speeds up the process (see below).
+
+\url{https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Vandalism}
Consequences of vandalism, vandalism management
"Vandalism is prohibited. While editors are encouraged to warn and educate vandals, warnings are by no means a prerequisite for blocking a vandal (although administrators usually only block when multiple warnings have been issued). "
@@ -68,11 +81,15 @@ socio-technical assemblages (see Geiger)
* Huggle, Twinkle, AWB, Bots exist nearly since the very beginning (2002?), why did the community introduce filters in 2009?
\subsection{Humans}
+
+Some of the quality control work is done ``manually'' by humand editors.
+That means, they engage in the standard encyclopedia editing mechanism (click the ``edit'' button on an article, enter changes in the editor which opens, write an edit summary for the edit, click ``save'') rather than using further automated tools to aid them.
+According to research focusing on vandalism fighting, the amount/share/proportion of editors who engage in counter-vandalism measures that way shrinks in favour of semi or fully automated tools. %TODO quotes!
* what part of the quality control work do humans take over? (in contrast to the algorithmic mechanisms)
\url{https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Recent_changes_patrol}
-\subsection{Semi-automatic tools}
+\subsection{Semi-automated tools}
Huggle, Twinkle, STiki~\cite{WestKanLee2010}
\url{http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:STiki}
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