[OSM-dev] Vandalism how to proceed?

[andrzej zaborowski]

On 23 March 2010 08:57, John Smith <deltafoxtrot256 at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 23 March 2010 17:44, Apollinaris Schoell <aschoell at gmail.com> wrote:
>> I know. at least it could delay things a bit.
>
> You'd then have to keep tabs on multiple accounts, not that reverting
> wouldn't potentially cause the same problem but it would take the
> abuser longer to figure this out.

I suggest that Apollinaris asks the folks in power to set block to set
a block on this user and wait for them to set the block, before
reverting the changes.  If the user opens new accounts then that is
clearly "ban evasion" and he himself will at least realise he's doing
something against the rules if he needs to go that far.

>
>> how? as soon as multiple edits on a object are done a revert tool must know which versions of which tag to reset too. Another user could have done a useful edit in between.

I think John meant something similar to what user:GeneralDreedle does
(revert every 10 minutes automatically if it there haven't been ther
user's edits in between)

>
> You need to do it as soon as possible to limit other people from
> updating things, you could track the minutely change files...
>
>> I try to write tools to do it without creating more damage but this is really tricky. the programming part is really the simplest of it.
>
> Others have already written revert tools, I wouldn't suggest writing any more...
>
>> To be really sure to revert things I'd need to go back analyze all his edits and the to see them all reverted the next day. this is way beyond the time I can spend.
>
> Others have already done this, why reinvent the wheel?

Really?  I haven't seen them.

Cheers