[wikipedia.mozdev] Simple Wikipedia Firefox extension request

[Brian Tinker]

Hello,

I'm an admin on Wikipedia, requesting a simple Firefox extension that 
should drastically help counter "sneaky vandalism". I've talked with 
several others who all say this is a great idea.

The basic idea is to feed Recent Changes diff's into Firefox, and let it 
determine which pages contain text (such as an obscenity) listed in a 
file. For pages that don't contain anything on this list, the tab is 
closed. The others remain open and ready to be examined. If you can't 
figure out how to hookup the IRC Recent Changes output into Firefox, 
another option would be for the extension to continually check if any of 
the new tabs have an item on the list, and close tabs that don't. Items 
on the list could be anything from "LOL" to "...." to "slfgjja".

While the simplest extension for the end-user would be the direct IRC 
feed, the manual tab-opening would also be welcome. Another option would 
be to employ the Recent Changes page, possibly along with Special:Export 
at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Export (in order to find sneaky 
html vandalism)

Please let me know if anyone is interested in this.


Thanks.

brian0918
brian0918 at gmail.com
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Brian0918