Countervandalism Network/CVNbot

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CVNbot is a unified, centralized countervandalism bot written in Perl. It is currently in development, and may soon replace the existing bots. The bot is intended to facilitate channel network administration and provide edit monitoring, without extraneous features.

Input is currently welcome from all users. Feel free to edit 'wishlist' or 'format' below, or join #countervandalism on the freenode IRC network to discuss.

[edit] Wishlist

• Administration
  • kick specified users/hostmasks across specified (or all) channels;
  • maintain access and ban lists.
  • create and remove new CVN channels, creating the default access lists, mode locks, and other options.

• Countervandalism
  • per-channel user and event customization;
  • alert some channel when possible-vandalism alerts reaches a threshold.

    How would the threshold be defined? Are you referring to en-Wikipedia's "DEFCON" template? —{admin} Pathoschild 21:38:35, 13 March 2008 (UTC)

    Well, the threshold would have to be determined on a per-wiki basis. Something like 1.5 times the previous week's average would be a good start (and tweak from there). But yeah, if there's suddenly lots and lots of page blankings (or new index.php pages or...) then ping someone. ...And ping only once per hour or something. – Mike.lifeguard | ^@en.wb 15:10, 14 March 2008 (UTC)

• Internal
  • automated nick recovery;
  • automated connection maintenance (reset on disconnect, etc).

• Other
  • #cvn-talkpage-notices (opt-in pinging when one's user pages on any wiki are edited)

[edit] Implemented features

• Administration
  • centrally notify staff of requests for help (!staff) in any CVN channels;
  • announce staff messages in specified or all CVN channels;
  • mode-restricted commands.

• Countervandalism
  • list changes.

[edit] Format

What format should the bot use? Feel free to edit this section, or discuss on the talk page or in #countervandalism.

[edit] Edit

[edit] See also

• #cvnbot (test channel)
• How the RC feed is parsed