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Wikipedia Vandalism Watch v1.0.0.1

This is a Windows application coded in Visual C#, and its sole purpose is to monitor specified users’ contributions pages. If it detects a top edit (i.e. what is currently being displayed to the world) within the past 10 minutes it will flag it for you, and allow you to directly open the diff’s for the specific article. All you need to do is add users who you think will deface an article and it will monitor them for you. When it scans for edits it will present its results in a table so you can easily see what has changed.

If you have no-one to monitor and you just want to see how the program works add the user “ClueBot” and select “Force Scan” from the menu in the top left. This will usually have at least 1 top edit every 10minutes and will provide results for you to see. ClueBot is an automated bot which attempts to fix various obvious vandalism such as page blanking.

Thanks go to…

Murray-Mint for some tips and pointers of how to start coding in C#
Cheez for helping with the regular expression of doom for finding edits

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This application comes with no guarantees and therefore, you use this software at your own personal risk.

Download (78kb) - Wikipedia Vandalism Watch - wikipedia-vandalism-watch_v1.0.0.1.zip