Problem: On the English Wikipedia, at least, Wikidata has a reputation for being prone to vandalism and errors. In my experience, even on the more visible items, vandalism may take more than a day to be removed and on other items can last for months. Vandalism reversion is also tedious and difficult, particularly since label vandalism can be in hundreds of languages.
Who would benefit: Wikidata editors, and users of the data on other wikis and elsewhere
Proposed solution: Provide better and faster-to-use vandalism-fighting tool(s). This could be one or more tools along the lines of -
Huggle, STiki and Twinkle on the English Wikipedia, with translation capability
Better vandalism fighting bots and edit filters (e.g. preventing height, weight, and gender/sex statements from being added or changed by new users) to better prevent drive-by nonsense insertion
Autoblock IPs and new users who are blocked on other WMF wikis to prevent vandalism from being "exported"
Allow fine-grained protection of individual labels, descriptions and statements to prevent them from being vandalized.
This would be incredibly useful. The handling of vandalism on Wikidata needs to be up to the same standards as enwp, if not better. Thanks. Mike Peel (talk) 21:01, 18 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]
@Jc86035: Hi. This proposal as it stands currently is too broad and vague. It's way too much work to build all of the tools being asked for here. Do you have any objection if I edit the proposal and narrow the scope to investigating the vandalism issues and building one or more tools to prevent that? -- NKohli (WMF) (talk) 18:31, 21 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]
@NKohli (WMF) and MusikAnimal (WMF): Feel free to revamp the proposal to make it more specific. I haven't really spent a lot of time reverting vandalism and haven't really looked into the tools much, so input and changes from users with more experience would be much appreciated. Jc86035 (talk) 15:28, 24 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Support Just getting a good Cluebot-like system would be an improvement, but there's probably a lot of good that could be done with ORES and STiki WhatamIdoing (talk) 19:17, 1 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Support I would happy to have a recent changes page that would show (filter) only Items' general statements edits, my local wiki Language descriptions changes (I can't monitor languages I don't know) and changes in links to my language articles. If an Item doesn't have any description or links in my language, I don't want to see it at all. If the change was marked as patrolled, I don't want to see it either . Hummingbird (talk) 02:06, 5 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Support sure but IMHo the vandalism on wikidata is not as bad as before, i have found much less recently... whilst it might be worse on English wikipedia than one years ago. I feel it is a human factor. I got reverted within minutes in an excessive way while I could find within hours a terrbile vandalism in a key page undetected for a longer time... is wikidata going to end like this? flooded with patrollers who act mechanically and have a kinda superficial interest for the content? Let's hope they will keep their "play" somewhere else... it's the patroller not the vandal that start to worry me. I still believe that you need first more real users, and pushing to increase that.--Alexmar983 (talk) 18:42, 10 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Support Like the idea of an improved Wikidata Huggle Joalpe (talk) 22:23, 27 November 2017 (UTC)