Wikidata talk:Vandalism

It's not really possible to blank a WD page the same way one can blank a WP page. -- Ypnypn (talk) 21:59, 15 March 2013 (UTC)

Huh. Maybe. Wouldn't it technically be possible to remove each section one by one (although a vandal would probably be caught)? And you can still, as far as I am aware, blank talk pages, user pages, project pages, templates, etc.Jakob ^{Megaphone, Telescope} 23:46, 15 March 2013 (UTC)

You can "blank" a page, but it takes as many edits as there are data items on the entry, so the sheer number of edits would look suspicious in the RC feed. Courcelles (talk) 22:21, 29 March 2013 (UTC)

I think that some data might be protected or semi-protected. See, for instance, there is no reason to modify a data set like city-population-2010 anymore after all data are entered and have been evaluated. --Matthiasb (talk) 21:17, 29 March 2013 (UTC)

Yes, I believe there's been some discussion of making it so a portion of an item can be protected independent of the rest. — PinkAmpers&^{(Je vous invite à me parler)} 03:32, 31 March 2013 (UTC)

Loss of control

The new system of interwikis made monitoring of changes more difficult, almost impossible. "Recent changes" and "Watchlist" on Wikipedias seem to be very unreliable (many changes of related WikiData item are not displayed), history pages of the Wikipedia articles display not changes of the related WikiData item at all. When somebody remove any sitelink, the connection will disappear without any trace. That is a nutrient environment for all mistakes, errors and vandalism. --ŠJů (talk) 03:16, 31 March 2013 (UTC)

Yes, we're working on making the changes show up in RC feeds on client wikis faster. We apologize for the issue. However, we're doing a pretty good job reverting vandalism here, and I'd say we have significantly less mistakes when it comes to interlanguage links than the Wikipedias used to. — PinkAmpers&^{(Je vous invite à me parler)} 03:32, 31 March 2013 (UTC)

Yes, Wikidata has made it much easier to resolve interwiki conflicts, but I wouldn't say that we are doing a pretty good job if you take other vandalism (or cluelessness) than link removals into account... When I view the 500 latest IP edits, I always run out of time before reverting all inappropriate edits that I see. Well, maybe I don't have enough time for Wikidata. :) --Silvonen (talk) 05:08, 4 April 2013 (UTC)

List (done)

Is there a list (like RFD) where we can note vandalism and/or apply for the "rollback" button? Please take a look at Special:Contributions/188.118.144.25. --Kolja21 (talk) 23:05, 14 April 2013 (UTC)

Try Wikidata:Administrators' noticeboard to report the IP. Rollback permissions are requested/granted at Wikidata:Requests_for_permissions#Requests_for_the_rollbacker_right. Jakob ^{Megaphone, Telescope} 01:56, 15 April 2013 (UTC)

Thanks. I've left a note there. --Kolja21 (talk) 13:39, 15 April 2013 (UTC)

Editing rights

It seems to me that most people who will want to edit wikidata will already have an account on another wikipedia project. The type of data wikidata holds is less resilient to vandalism, and has less eyes on it than wikipedia.

I would suggest not allowing anon (IP) editors to edit wikidata at all, and only allow account holders in good standing on at least one wikiproject to edit. The facility exists to give new accounts confirmed status should they need it. I know this suggestion won't be accepted, but I think it is something to think about.Martin451 (talk) 20:12, 22 April 2013 (UTC)

Why? Most IP edits are constructive (for instance, this one), and it's easy for a vandal to create an account. Also, I'm not sure what being in a WikiProject has to do with this, maybe I'm missing something? ...Jakob ^{Megaphone, Telescope} 21:07, 22 April 2013 (UTC)

Tools and links

FYI: I created a user-page template, User:YMS/RC, containing a lot of links to tools, reports, project pages and different RC lists useful when fighting vandalism in Wikidats. I'm using it for my daily work now for quite a while, and it does help me a lot. You are invited to use it, of course, and please also feel free to improve it e.g. by adding more links or removing such that became useless. (The front page is a pure guideline page that does not contain any links to tools etc. currently, which is why I mention my template here instead of putting it there.) --YMS (talk) 09:05, 16 April 2016 (UTC)

@YMS: This page is very useful, but not really visible at the moment. To my opinion it would be great to expand and enrich it to a Wikidata:WikiProject CVN. Potential use: gather CVN editors; list and describe available tools & functionality; make Wikidata’s CVN efforts visible to external users (Wikipedias, etc.). —MisterSynergy (talk) 11:33, 20 January 2017 (UTC)

Does Wikidata have a Cluebot?

I've come across a fair amount of unreverted vandalism in labels at Wikidata while trying to import short descriptions. Many of these are by brand new users, and should have been fairly easy to algorithmicly detect. Does Wikidata have some equivalent of en-WP's Cluebot NG, or is such a bot under development? Sdkb (talk) 20:40, 7 May 2020 (UTC)

I am sure we had one. But I don't know what the name was and if it's still working. --Matěj Suchánek (talk) 10:30, 8 May 2020 (UTC)

Protection de mai 2020

Hello Jasper Deng ,
Comment allez-vous en cette période ? Bien j'espère ? Je viens auprès de vous pour la protection que vous avez installé début mai. Suivant le motif de votre protection, ne serait-il pas judicieux de proteger aussi du move ? Au plaisir de vous lire prochainement. —Eihel (talk) 21:30, 17 November 2020 (UTC)

@Eihel: Le protection de edit implique le protection de move: un éditeur qui ne peut pas modifier cette page ne peut pas "move" la page. Je vais ajouter le protection "full" du "move" maintenant.--Jasper Deng (talk) 06:51, 18 November 2020 (UTC)

Ah bon ?! Êtes-vous sûr ? Quand je clique ici, je vois que c'est dissocié. À+. —Eihel (talk) 06:57, 18 November 2020 (UTC)

@Eihel: Il faut toujours avoir le droit de modifier pour le droit de "move", pour tous nos pages. Si j'ajoute le protection "full" sur un page en modification ([edit=sysop]), vous ne pourriez pas la bouger, même si je n'ai pas mis le protection "move" ([move=sysop]).--Jasper Deng (talk) 08:01, 18 November 2020 (UTC)

@Jasper Deng: Vous avez raison. Ça ne fonctionne que dans le sens inverse (move protégé uniquement). Un grand MERCI. —Eihel (talk) 09:06, 18 November 2020 (UTC)