Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/VRTbot

The following discussion is an archived debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section. The result of the discussion was Request Expired.

VRTbot

• (BRFA
• Approved BRFAs
• talk
• contribs
• count
• SUL
• logs
• page moves
• block log
• rights log
• flag)

Operator: RyanB88

Automatic or Manually Assisted: Automatic

Programming Language(s): C#

Function Summary: This bot is designed to reconize and respond to vandalism.

Edit period(s) (e.g. Continuous, daily, one time run): Continuous

Edit rate requested: 6 edits per minute (at most, per policy, thats no more than one edit every 10 seconds)

Already has a bot flag (Y/N): N

Function Details: I am programming this bot to reconize vandalism by looking for some of the RC indicators I look for, then if it finds such an edit, it reviews the diff and will look for a few things, blanking, gibberish, URL's with "blacklisted" words, and other "blacklisted" words and phrases, in other words i will make it look for much the stuff I do, but it can run more often than I can be on.

Discussion

We already have User:AntiVandalBot and it takes a long time to make an accurate bot. If you have any ideas about how/what vandalism to reckognize, you may want to talk to Joshbuddy and Tawker to have it added to that bot, rather than writing a new one. Voice-of-All 21:09, 10 February 2007 (UTC)

what does it matter if its one bot that checks for vandalism by checking for certian things, or its two that work sightly diffrent but overlap, as long as it gets done.--71.217.192.176 23:23, 10 February 2007 (UTC)

• What will this bot do when it finds suspected vandalism? Will this bot communicate with users, admins? How will this bot avoid legitimate editors doing things such as removing large unsourced sections of articles? — xaosflux ^Talk 00:09, 11 February 2007 (UTC)

I have no problems w/ AVB getting a lil company, I should warn ya though, it's not exactly an easy task, 50 trillion false positives / people wanting to kill you before they get used to the bot. If you wanna email your patterns somewhere, maybe I can give ya a hand (code diversity is a good thing.....) -- Tawker 07:20, 11 February 2007 (UTC)

Request Expired. —METS501 (talk) 04:55, 24 February 2007 (UTC)

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