I thought this was kinda funny. A week ago, someone posted "Apparently <college name> has a financial aid department that is run by monkeys." on my college's Wikipedia article. Being a smaller college, I figured nobody would catch it. I went back today, and it had been edited out. As it turns out, Wikipedia has a Vandalism Bot of sorts that looks for and catches this kind of thing.
Reading through the page, I found the list of regexes the system uses to catch bad edits. There is a "good" list and a "bad" list, with commentary included. The commentary itself is kinda funny, in a "meant to be taken seriously" way. This could also be useful if you wanted to make changes that would not be caught.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:DASHBot/Vandalism
Some of my favorites:
(?i)([\@a4] |h[i\!1][z\$s] |the ) w[\@a4]ng[zs\$]?
# a wang, his wang, the wang
becareful http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?tit ... =354028912 (Man's name is Wang, lawl)
(?i)([\@a4]+s{2,}|[s\$]+h+[i\!1]+t+|c+r+[\@a4]+p|b+u+(tt+|m+)|d+[i\!1]+c*k+)[\s\-]?h+[o0]+w*l+e+[\$zs]+
# assholes, asshowles, buthowles, bumholllesss ect (Someone put a LOT of thought into this)
(?i)w+[i\!1]+e+r+d+[o0]*[\$sz]*
# I cant think of a time when this would be appropriate. (Just the comment itself is worth it)
This just goes to show you the power of a good regex.
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Wikipedia Abuse Filter
by Goatboy on Mon Oct 18, 2010 4:39 pm
([msg=47752]see Wikipedia Abuse Filter[/msg])
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Re: Wikipedia Abuse Filter
by sanddbox on Mon Oct 18, 2010 8:14 pm
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I've seen a lot of vandalism bots. I think there was one called CleverBot or something. The bots always fixed the obvious stuff (like a whole page being blanked) instantly, which was nice.
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Re: Wikipedia Abuse Filter
by msbachman on Sat Nov 06, 2010 8:57 pm
([msg=48645]see Re: Wikipedia Abuse Filter[/msg])
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Re: Wikipedia Abuse Filter
by alltheprettyhorses on Sun Nov 07, 2010 9:01 am
([msg=48691]see Re: Wikipedia Abuse Filter[/msg])
Cross-reference the dates. Goatboy's is the original.
EDIT: Awww fuck wait, Sarcasm...GOD DAMN drunk posting. Apologies.
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Re: Wikipedia Abuse Filter
by sanddbox on Sun Nov 07, 2010 2:12 pm
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alltheprettyhorses wrote:
Cross-reference the dates. Goatboy's is the original.
EDIT: Awww fuck wait, Sarcasm...GOD DAMN drunk posting. Apologies.
I lol'd. Pwned.
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Re: Wikipedia Abuse Filter
by fabianhjr on Sun Nov 14, 2010 10:30 am
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lol, I love this section. xD
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