User:VoABot II

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This user account is a bot operated by Voice of All (talk).

It is not a sock puppet, but rather an automated or semi-automated account for making repetitive edits that would be extremely tedious to do manually.
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The VoABot mk. II fighter providing long-range aerial reconnaissance and defense in support of Operation Enduring Encyclopedia over the skies of Wikipedia on July 28, 2006.
The VoABot mk. II fighter providing long-range aerial reconnaissance and defense in support of Operation Enduring Encyclopedia over the skies of Wikipedia on July 28, 2006.

[edit] About VoABot II

The purpose of this approved bot is to patrol articles and revert edits from obnoxious banned users/trolls with revolving IPs. General AOL/shared IP vandalism and spam patrol and page move patrol are also included. This is useful against both for long-term steady vandalism of certain pages or vandalbot attacks on many random pages. Semi-protection cannot be used for random page vandalism and it can be needlessly limiting if long-term use is applied to pages just to stop shared IP vandals. Similarly, move-protection is useless against random page move attacks. Additionally, "throwaway" accounts can make semi-protection end up as full protection.

[edit] Tasks

WikiDefcon
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WikiDefcon 4: Low to normal levels of vandalism from shared IPs and experimenting users.
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Vandalism levels back to normal. CAT:CSD still backlogged. -- Hdt83 Chat 06:24, 8 April 2007 (UTC)
  • A) In the case where banned users continue to use sockpuppet accounts/shared IPs/open proxies to add edits clearly rejected by consensus to the point where long term protection is required, VoABot II may be programmed to watch those pages and revert those edits instead. Such edits are considered blacklisted. IP ranges can also be blacklisted from the bot's watchlist. This is reserved only for special cases.
  • B) VoABot II patrols recent changes and checks all edits by logged-out AOL, other shared IP users, and IPs that are acting as hosts (open ports). Any detected vandalism is reverted. This is done to avoid IP revolving spammers that hit multiple pages at random.
  • C) The move log is patrolled by VoABot II for page moves to inappropriate names by possible vandals. Such page moves will be reverted.

Note: IP ranges are never blacklisted from recent changes, excepting AOL for brief time periods if needed. Temporarily blacklisting AOL during a heavy vandalbot attack still allows talk page edits to be made and any good edits from AOL IPs made during that timeframe to be reviewed and restored (as opposed to blocking all AOL ranges).

Note: = Checked ability approved at requests for approvals.

[edit] Status

Pages watched by VoABot II

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[edit] See also

[edit] Script

I am the author of this the script. It is a combination of JavaScript for parsing and Java for storing and reading data, some of which is called when scanning pages.Voice-of-All 03:14, 28 July 2006 (UTC)

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