User:BradBeattie/WikiGuard
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| Developer: | Brad Beattie |
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| Latest release: | Beta 4 / January 11th, 2007 |
| OS: | Mac OS 10.4 |
| Use: | Wikipedia Tools |
| License: | GPL |
| Website: | On SourceForge |
WikiGuard is an application that is designed to reduce the time required to find and revert vandalism on Wikipedia. It was inspired by Vandal Fighter and Vandal Proof, but is built using Core Data for Mac OS X. This difference brings the strengths of that API to the task of monitoring recent changes.
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[edit] Workflow
Upon launching, WikiGuard connects and listens to the IRC feed of recent changes. The user selects an edit to view and reports back to the application their judgement of the edit. Users that are judged as vandals are considered higher risk as are articles that are frequently vandalized. The long-term effect is that high-risk edits are more easily located.
[edit] Current state of the project
[edit] Developers and testers
This application is in active development as of October, 2006. Its code could stand to use some testers or even some other developers to help polish it up. If you're at all interested, please leave a message on the SourceForge project page.
[edit] MediaWiki API
MediaWiki's API will, if fully implemented, allow posting data to pages. This would allow a single-click revert option. For now, the application only acts as an augmented front-end for the recent changes feed.
[edit] See also
- Vandal Fighter (Java)
- Vandal Proof (Windows)
- Vandal Sniper (Linux GTK)
