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25-04-2008, 20:20
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Wikipedia - How so quick?
I made a change to the Dina Meyer page on Wikipedia and it was reverted within 90 seconds.
How does that happen? She's not exactly someone who I imagine people would be looking up (fnarr) on a very regular basis so I'm a bit surprised.
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25-04-2008, 20:26
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Don't certain pages have "Guardians" who look after them? I'm sure someone somewhere must have got a notification that you'd changed said page.
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25-04-2008, 20:57
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Gits.
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25-04-2008, 21:10
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25-04-2008, 21:15
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It wasn't vandalism, it was an accurate statement of fact. This is what was removed...
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25-04-2008, 21:42
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/me writes letter of complaint.
Outraged of Banbury!
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25-04-2008, 22:12
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Dina Meyer would not be kicked out of bed for eating crisps and farting.
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25-04-2008, 23:15
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your mistake was not sourcing your edit if you had included a reference to a notable newspaper identifying her as being "damm good" then it might have been there a bit longer until someone reverted it because it did not meet the writing style of an encyclopaedia.
There are systems in place that report all edits through to IRC, certain edits (ones containing certain words or one liners as examples), client software watches this channel and informs editors when suspect changes are made. Example of such software: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:VPRF /me goes back to the EVE Article |
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26-04-2008, 00:07
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Indeed the history shows it was found and reverted with that exact software. Even placed a nice friendly (proforma) message on the appropriate Talk page too.
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