Hello, reader.
I'm a (more-or-less) active Wikimedian since 2013, when I started contributing to German Wikipedia. Since 2014 most of my Wikimedia activity shifted from Wikipedia to Wikidata. I used to work at Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena, where I was using Wikibase and Wikidata for metascience in the Digital Humanities. I now am IT-staff and board member of an IT-consultant cooperative, which does not enable me to spend a lot of time in Wikimedia projects, but I try to find the time to at least monitor the recent changes every now and then, when I'm not busy at work.
I spent too much time searching through my browser history for old queries, so I decided to link queries I wrote in the past and might need in the future:
When combating vandalism by IPs on Wikidata, I tend to lookup global contributions of the corresponding subnet, which frequently reveals recent xwiki vandalism.
WMF is planning to prevent this kind of countervandalism by introduction of a new policy no one asked for. I am therefore collecting some cases in which i successfully made use of a subnet lookup to identify previously overlooked vandalism on the subpage /Temporary Accounts. I do this to document the harm WMF is causing to data integrity in all of it's projects. Hopefully it will be helpful in efforts to change WMF's policy to reflect community needs.
This user is doing paid contributions to Wikidata. Please note that this does not mean that the user is speaking for their employer, nor does it free from the obligation to add sources to statements. The following Institutions or Organizations have paid for this user's contributions:
