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I've been tracking anonymous changes to one of the Playboy format descriptions on the WIKI for awile now, but I haven't intervened at any point because I don't know if the anonymous user is actually contributing useful information or utter garbage. In any case, the following pages are directly involved:

• Playboy CAM 2 (main page edited)
• Playboy PICT 1
• Playboy PICT 2
• Playboy PICT 8 (new page created by anonymous user)

These are the other Playboy format pages:

• Playboy CAM 1 (untouched by anonymous user)
• GRF Playboy The Mansion (also untouched)

These edits are the only ones performed by this particular IP. Could someone who originally worked to uncover these formats have a look and render judgement?

Dinoguy1000 wrote:I've been tracking anonymous changes to one of the Playboy format descriptions on the WIKI for awile now, but I haven't intervened at any point because I don't know if the anonymous user is actually contributing useful information or utter garbage. In any case, the following pages are directly involved:

• Playboy CAM 2 (main page edited)
• Playboy PICT 1
• Playboy PICT 2
• Playboy PICT 8 (new page created by anonymous user)

These are the other Playboy format pages:

• Playboy CAM 1 (untouched by anonymous user)
• GRF Playboy The Mansion (also untouched)

These edits are the only ones performed by this particular IP. Could someone who originally worked to uncover these formats have a look and render judgement?

It does look like graphics info, doesn't it?

Yeah, that's what it looks like, but I'm not sure if any of it's actually correct.

Dinoguy1000 wrote:Yeah, that's what it looks like, but I'm not sure if any of it's actually correct.

Maybe you should set a way to make a log of what user edits what page.
as tbh i have been tihnking this for a while but the WIKI is the most obvious place for a BOT to post in dont you think.

If there was a LOG of some sort you would be able to PM and ask the person and set ti so that they couldnt post without a propper username ect.

I tihnk my idea makes sense btu im not sure how hard itd be to impliment as i dont know much about webpage design so i cant even venture a propper guess lol

lionheartuk wrote:

Dinoguy1000 wrote:Yeah, that's what it looks like, but I'm not sure if any of it's actually correct.

Maybe you should set a way to make a log of what user edits what page.
as tbh i have been tihnking this for a while but the WIKI is the most obvious place for a BOT to post in dont you think.

If there was a LOG of some sort you would be able to PM and ask the person and set ti so that they couldnt post without a propper username ect.

I tihnk my idea makes sense btu im not sure how hard itd be to impliment as i dont know much about webpage design so i cant even venture a propper guess lol

Well, anyone can edit. We are powered by the Mediawiki system.
As sysops (Me, Dinoguy, Captain, Watto, Elbereth) we can easily roll back any edit from a bot/spambitch at any time. And block them or their IPs too. Trouble is to identify spam, I guess, in the post from Dinoguy. I'd say in this case, the stuff looks real enough, and I didn't notice any hidden messages.

Exactly. As for the log, every page on the WIKI has its own 'history' record, viewable to one and all, and there's always Special:Recentchanges.