"Defending Wikipedia", presented at the Web 2.0 Summit by Jonathan Hochman

1. Defending Wikipedia Nov 5, 2008 Web 2.0 Summit

2. Wikipedia seems to ranks first for many most generic search terms 228,247 page views in October Wikipedia traffic stats are available at http://stats.grok.se

4. Patrols Patrols are used in Wikipedia to watch over a class of pages and take any appropriate actions. Most patrol actions are performed by individual Wikipedians , but some are performed by bots . There is a great need for patrols in Wikipedia. Wikipedia is huge (2.6+ million articles) . To help maintain reasonable quality a number of Wikipedia community members have set up long-standing patrols. Patrols focus on various pages , noticeboards and feeds . Many of the well-known patrols have hundreds of users, and are directly responsible as a first line against vandalism , or other potential problems. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Patrols

5. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:ClueBot ClueBot , a famous patroller ” “ I am ClueBot. I am currently enabled. I currently have 769,303 contributions. “ I have attempted to revert 519 unique article/user combinations in the last 24 hours. I know of 994 different articles that have been vandalized in the last 48 hours. “ Teacher is the most vandalized page with a total of 11 vandalisms in the last 48 hours. Today's featured article is: NeXT .” -- Cobi ( t | c | b ) 09:53, 28 October 2008 (UTC) ClueBot reverts, warns, scans, and calls for help when needed. “

7. Semi-automated Counter-vandalism tools Rollback, Twinkle, Huggle, VandalSniper, Lupin’s Anti-Vandal Tool – all open source. Automated scripts patrol for suspicious looking edits and bring them to the attention of a human operator. The human decides what needs to be done, and the script takes care of the details.

8. Watchlists for manual patrolling

10. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Administrators'_noticeboard

11. WikiProjects http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Spam

12. http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Spam_blacklist The WikiMedia spam blacklist is public and free