Submissions/Countering Vandalism on Wikipedia

After careful consideration, the Programme Committee has decided not to accept the below submission at this time. Thank you to the author(s) for participating in the Wikimania 2014 programme submission, we hope to still see you at Wikimania this August.

Submission no. 1028

Title of the submission

Countering Vandalism on Wikipedia

Type of submission (discussion, hot seat, panel, presentation, tutorial, workshop)

Discussion

Author of the submission

Saim Rashid (Srkamal)

E-mail address

saim.3d[at]gmail[dot]com

Username

srkamal

Country of origin

Pakistan

Affiliation, if any (organisation, company etc.)

Freelancer

Personal homepage or blog

srkamal9.blogspot.com

Abstract (at least 300 words to describe your proposal)

This will be an interactive session on Vandalism. Topics discussed would be: what is vandalism? Different categories of Vandalism? How to prevent Wikipedia from Vandalism? And How to detect vandalism from pages?

Track

Legal & Free Culture

Length of session (if other than 30 minutes, specify how long)

20 minutes

Will you attend Wikimania if your submission is not accepted?

yes

Slides or further information (optional)

There will be slides

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