User:ClueBot

ClueBot
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ClueBot aids in Operation Enduring Encyclopedia.
Operator:	Cobi (t)
Approved?	Yes, BRFA.
Flagged?	Yes.
Task(s):	Reverting vandalism.[1] Report IP vandals who use open proxies to WP:OP.[2]
Edit rate:	As fast as it finds vandalism.
Edit period(s):	Continually
Automatic or manual?	Automatic
Programming language(s):	PHP, my own code utilizing api.php, query.php, and index.php.
Exclusion compliant?	Yes
Other information:	ClueBot is run from the ClueNet servers.

Documentation

Administrator emergency shutoff

Administrators may turn the bot off by changing this page to 'False'.

Exclusion compliant

This bot is an exclusion compliant bot.

Other namespace opt-in

Normally ClueBot will not revert pages outside of the main namespace (with the exception of talk pages if it detects page-move vandalism). However, if there is a good reason to list another page (like a user page, user talk, or talk page that gets vandalized often), it can be listed on this list of pages outside the main namespace to revert.

1RR compliant

This bot will not revert the same article and user more than once per day. There is one exception: This bot will revert today's featured article or any page listed in the opt-in list for angry mode as many times as it finds vandalism. The bot will not revert to itself or one of its friends (MartinBot/VoABot II).

My stats

For my editing stats, please go here.

Scoring system

For pages which have had a lot of text added in the last change, the bot will score the additions based on this list, and then score the removals on the inverse of that list. If the overall score is greater than -100, the bot sees the edit as constructive and does nothing, if it scores less than -100, the bot sees it as destructive, reports it and possibly reverts it.

Open proxy scanning

ClueBot will report open proxies found on vandalizing IP addresses to WP:OP. ClueBot checks the following DNS Blacklists:

• tor.dnsbl.sectoor.de
• tor.ahbl.org

ClueBot also scans the following ports for open proxies:

• HTTP: 80 8080 3128 6588 81 8000 8001 8081 808 6660 6661 6662 6663 6664 6665 6666 6667 6668 6669 1337 31337 1338 31338 7000
• SOCKS4: 1080 3128 4914 6826 7198 7366 9036 29992 38884 18844 17771 31121 6660 6661 6662 6663 6664 6665 6666 6667 6668 6669 1337 31337 1338 31338 7000
• SOCKS5: 1080 3128 4438 5104 5113 5262 5634 6552 6561 7464 7810 8130 8148 8520 8814 9100 9186 9447 9578 6660 6661 6662 6663 6664 6665 6666 6667 6668 6669 1337 31337 1338 31338 7000
• ROUTER: 23
• WINGATE: 23
• HTTPPOST: 80 81 808 6588 4480 8000 8001 8080 8081 6660 6661 6662 6663 6664 6665 6666 6667 6668 6669 1337 31337 1338 31338 7000

IRC

Debug channel

ClueBot reports vandalism that it finds in #wikipedia-VAN on FreeNode.

Admin requests

ClueBot will make requests for administrators in #cvn-wp-en when a user vandalizes while listed on AIV. ClueBot also will make requests for administrators in #cvn-wp-en when a page has been vandalized 30 times in the last 48 hours.

Commands

ClueBot responds to a couple of commands due to Wikihermit's request.
!edit [[PAGENAME]] will give information on the last edit to the given page.
!stalk [[User:USERNAME]] will give information on the last edit by the given user.
!count [[User:USERNAME]] will give the edit count for the given user
!beaten [[User:USERNAME]] will give the number of times the given user has beaten ClueBot to a revert
!vandalcount [[PAGENAME]] will give the vandalized count.
!warninglevel [[User:USERNAME]] will give the user warning level during the last two days.

Channels

ClueBot hangs out on the following channels on FreeNode:

• #countervandalism
• ##Cremepuff222
• #wikipedia-bag
• #tawker-bot
• #wikipedia-en
• ##TheLetterE
• #Wikihermit
• #Animum
• #cvn-wp-en
• #wikipedia-VAN
• #wikipedia-BAG/ClueBot

Awards

Show all awards

	The Anti-Vandalism Barnstar
	Thank you bot. Goawaynoah (talk) 20:28, 5 February 2012 (UTC)

	The Anti-Vandalism Barnstar
	Good job! MakecatTalk 07:22, 24 January 2012 (UTC)

	The Anti-Vandalism Barnstar
	This bot deserves an Anti-Vandalism Barnstar. Pinetalk 07:20, 7 January 2012 (UTC)

	The Defender of the Wiki Barnstar
	Good work. Keep it up. Ankit Maity Talk • contribs 14:00, 6 January 2012 (UTC)

Thanks for being you.

Gobonobo ^{T C} 08:35, 1 January 2012 (UTC)

	The Anti-Vandalism Barnstar
	Superbbbbbbbbbbbb vandalism reverts......Very few false positives! Keep up the good work! Night Of Darkness 11:47, 30 December 2011 (UTC)

	The Anti-Vandalism Barnstar
	Superbbbbbbbbbbbb vandalism reverts......Very few false positives! Keep up the good work! Night Of Darkness 11:47, 30 December 2011 (UTC)

	The Anti-Vandalism Barnstar
	You're very outstanding! Keep up your good work!!! Il223334234 (talk) 08:20, 27 December 2011 (UTC)

	The Hard Worker's Barnstar
	For working tirelessly against the vandals of Wikipedia. Good work. (P.S: You're not Wikipedia's version of Skynet, are you?) Agent 78787 (talk) 04:42, 26 December 2011 (UTC)

	Globe Award
	For your services to Wikipedia Solar Police►Talk 15:45, 16 December 2011 (UTC)

The Defender of the Wiki Barnstar

How is it possible that the single largest defender of the wiki against vandalism hasn't yet been titled as a Defender of the Wiki Achowat (talk) 18:47, 12 December 2011 (UTC)

Trophy

You beat me to the vandalism, meany! (: Sensesfail123 (talk) 04:00, 6 November 2011 (UTC)

		The Anti-Vandalism Barnstar
		This is awarded, for obvious reasons, to the original ClueBot and ClueBot NG. I hope NG keeps being a common sight on the recent changes for a long time! ☺ Keep up the good work, ClueBot(s)! Dynamic|cimanyD contact me ⁞ my edits 21:19, 13 September 2011 (UTC)

	The Anti-Vandalism Barnstar
	For beating me to vandalism too many times! Dan653 (talk) 23:42, 10 December 2011 (UTC)

	The Technical Barnstar
	Excellent bot - and thanks for the archive facilities which I have just added to my own page. ῤerspeκὖlὖm in ænigmate(talk)(spy) 07:32, 26 August 2011 (UTC)

	Boom!
	The time bomb you received just exploded! By now with all these barnstars in the sky, you should be happy. Welcome back to Wikipedia, ClueBot! StormContent (talk) 13:18, 21 August 2011 (UTC)

	Time bomb!
	I'm giving you a time bomb. After a while, It will explode into loads of barnstars. I love you! StormContent (talk) 20:14, 20 August 2011 (UTC)

	The Random Acts of Kindness Barnstar
	well done on protecting wikipeedia HHHackers (talk) 02:49, 10 August 2011 (UTC)

	User:ClueBot NG has been awarded an Awesomebox because it always reverts vandalism continously.

ULTRASTAR123|KABOOM! 18:27, 18 December 2011 (UTC)

		The Anti-Vandalism Barnstar
		You always beat everyone, especially me! A520 | Talk me away!/sign it! 14:50, 21 December 2011 (UTC)

	The Anti-Vandalism Barnstar
	A barnstar 4 you! Zhaofeng Li (talk) 11:28, 31 January 2012 (UTC)

Congratulations on receiving the Dr. Heiter Award!

For your contributions to The Human Centipede (First Sequence) I present you with the Dr. Heiter Award. "Feed!"

Hi there, thank you for your contributions to The Human Centipede (First Sequence). When the article was first started in October 2009 is was but a tiny stub that was immediately tagged for deletion, but thanks to the efforts of wikipedia editors that tiny acorn has grown into a great oak tree of an article. The Human Centipede (First Sequence) now has B-Class status and on the 17th June 2010 the article received its 1,000,000th page view!

The Dr. Heiter Award was created to reward editors who have made positive contributions to the article. It can be presented by any wikipedia user to anyone who has helped the article grow. This might be by adding new content, fixing any errors or reverting vandalism.

Thanks!

Thanks for sorting out so much vandalism on the article ClueBot! It's all very much appreciated. Keep up the good work! Coolug (talk) 21:16, 31 January 2011 (UTC)

Congratulations

	Westing Game Award
	Congratulations on reverting the insidious attack on The Westing Game. Unfortunately T.R. Wexler has already solved the puzzle and the inheritance is already claimed. Better luck next time Hasteur (talk) 20:48, 12 October 2011 (UTC)

Praise

Thanks for continued vigilance on the broccoli page. Why are vandals so fascinated by vegetables? I sure appreciate the work. Phytism (talk) 15:53, 19 August 2011 (UTC)

Thank you for stopping vandalism on Malik (Bihar)page.I try to put in in safe list but failed than i dishearted and stop my research and seeing no point if anyone vandalize my page and wikipedia don't do a thing if his ip address always the same.But people like you to save our trust on wikipedia.thanks again

Thank you to ClueBot NG for fixing vandalism on Boer. I'm a Wiki newbie and don't know if the vandalism was virus-related, or maybe related to a teenager accessing my computer at home. Does the addition of this rude phrase look like something a virus might do? http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Boer&diff=415433912&oldid=415408995 — Preceding unsigned comment added by 99.39.88.116 (talk) 02:47, 19 July 2011 (UTC)

Thank You Very Much for reverting vandalism to John Goodsall and Brand X! Have a great day ~ j goodS

Thanks for hitting that vandal over the Himati page. :) Sam Sanchez 18:16, 6 February 2011 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by S5switch (talk • contribs)

Argggg it did it again :(. I dont suppose that you could put like a 2 minute delay on this thing. Then I could feel useful :) Apart from that though, GO CLUEBOT --Benboy00 (talk) 14:45, 23 January 2011 (UTC)

Dang, ClueBot NG is amazing - it catches vandalism that other bots could only dream of detecting. I originally predicted that bots would detect 50% of all vandalism by 2030, but it looks like I was off by a whopping two decades! :-) Oh, and it beats me to the edit almost every time. :o --Ixfd64 (talk) 06:49, 4 November 2010 (UTC)

Should I consider this a challenge to meet your 2056 prediction? Crispy1989 (talk) 07:01, 4 November 2010 (UTC)

I don't think were going to have to wait that long. :D --Ixfd64 (talk) 07:06, 4 November 2010 (UTC)

Of course, we could have a >99.9% detection rate by making the bot revert every edit from a non-whitelisted user, but the false positive rate would be a tad high, wouldn't it? --Ixfd64 (talk) 07:07, 4 November 2010 (UTC)

The false positive rate is configurable - vandalism catch rate depends on it. Current false positive rate is 0.25%, which seems reasonable. It may end up being lowered, but is unlikely to be raised. At this rate, we are currently catching about 60% of vandalism. 99.9% isn't a realistic goal, because some borderline edits really should have a human decide. But maybe we can get close. Crispy1989 (talk) 07:20, 4 November 2010 (UTC)

I noticed this bot pop up on my watchlist, as I understand it, it seems likley that when completed it will be able to catch and revert upto 70% of the vandalism on wikipedia within 0.02 seconds with a 0.5% false positive rate? <---- That's a very exciting prospect, great work! Ajbpearce (talk) 21:31, 5 November 2010 (UTC)

Well, it can already catch 70% of vandalism, with a 0.5% false positive rate, and the core operates in 0.02 seconds. However, the false positive rate was lowered to 0.25% (at which it catches around 60% of vandalism) and may be lowered still. Also, 0.02 seconds is how long it takes the core to classify an edit as vandalism. The interface to Wikipedia takes most of the time, and can add up to several seconds to this. Crispy1989 (talk) 00:53, 6 November 2010 (UTC)

Thank you for this bot. It seems quite more aggressive than previous bots, and that's a great thing. With the amount of vandalism we see, I much rather have the occasional false positive than scale back the triggers. --CutOffTies (talk) 16:10, 18 November 2010 (UTC)

Re. User talk:82.1.67.40: May I thank you for the immediate and extremely necessary, sensible, competent and (as I personally believe) nationally useful (in fact extremely useful and sensible in all respects including international) immediate removal on 18 November of the remarkably non-substantiated comment provided by the person or persons as named under 'User talk' address above, and also for your explanation and suggestions on this same talk page. You may be interested to know (if any of you should have the time or the interest) that I myself have added a further comment to the talk page in question (User talk:82.1.67.40). WELL DONE WIKIPEDIA will be the ultimate verdict, or so I believe. It remains to be seen. If you want further information I shall be pleased to provide it to you (by email or by post, contact peter.judge@laposte.net). Thanks for that which you have so WELL in fact MAGNIFICENTLY done. I find it difficult to explain fully my gratitude but a step will now I can assure you be a contribution in financial terms to Wikipedia by myself, even if I am afraid it must be rather modest. Au revoir, and good luck to you and Wikipedia. Peter Judge 22 November 2010 —Preceding unsigned comment added by 92.17.96.225 (talk) 15:41, 22 November 2010 (UTC)

STOP. This is your last warning; the next time you beat me to vandalism on Wikipedia, you may be praised repeatedly without further notice. Ha.ha. Keep up the good work! ^Jguy_Talk^Done 21:11, 24 November 2010 (UTC)

After the introduction of ClueBot NG I have had noticeable less vandalism fighting to do, in fact so little it feels like I am almost out of a job as a vandalism fighter. Very nice job. Praise to all involved in the bot. --Saddhiyama (talk) 12:35, 30 November 2010 (UTC)

I just cannot believe how advanced the bot is! I cannot believe that it reverts the edits almost instantly! It fascinates me! Does anyone here know how ClueBot works? Because I just cannot believe how advanced it is! Technology these days :D -UNpilot15

Holy... every time I try to revert vandalism... this bot always does it first!!what kind of steroids are you using? just kidding, great work on the bot guys, it really has made the wiki a cleaner place. XD0248 (talk)` —Preceding undated comment added 02:03, 15 December 2010 (UTC).

When I realized how much I relied on wikipedia I made a pledge to hand fix at least five acts of vandalism a day (That includes fact checking of minor date changes and similar issues). Problem is, you catch at least 3/5 of those right when I click on them! I click on the history, see obvious vandalism, go to edits... when BOOM! It's already gone, along with a warning for the user. This bot is absolutely amazing, I just wish it could pass a turing test and gain publicity... Silenceisgod (talk) 23:36, 13 December 2010 (UTC)

It's amazing, but what about us rollbackers? We're legitimately going to be out of a job :O! Soon, we'll just have a bot that reverts everything and our job will be to re-revert non-vandal edits! But seriously, this bot is smart enough to catch virtually anything. I bet vandals won't even bother in 10 years. Finalius (Ecru?!) 12:18, 15 December 2010 (UTC)

• This bot is awesome. I'm constantly amazed at its accuracy. It's code is genius. Great job guys. Looking forward to helping out with the dataset to make it even better. -- œ^™ 05:01, 30 December 2010 (UTC)

Wikipedia should make Cluebot adds, within 6 months no-one would even know what a Wiki-vandal is! Great job, almost impsible to win in a race with it! Sumsum2010·T·C 03:19, 6 January 2011 (UTC)

• Whenever Cluebot beats me (often does) I dub myself ClueBeaten. Keep up the good work. Lozeldafan (talk) 21:32, 6 January 2011 (UTC)

Shame on you, cluebot! Still, you're usually doing a nice job. :) Kayau Voting IS evil 14:12, 13 January 2011 (UTC)

While i was monitoring the recent changes, i saw some vandalism. I went to undo it but ClueBot NG beat me to it. He is so fast! Keep up the good work. --The Lord of the Allosaurs (talk) 12:35, 23 January 2011 (UTC)

Thanks Cluebot for reverting the vandalism on Aaron Porter. While it was loading I realised that it was an article I should stay away from (as I doubt that I could remain NPOV). Thank you for taking the decision away from me. Escapepea (talk) 16:33, 30 January 2011 (UTC)

Thanks, Cluebot, for spotting a serious case of vandalism by Supyanhussin in the article on Computer-assisted language learning (CALL). The revision by Supyanhussin made a complete mess of the introduction and was clearly the work of a person who has little understanding of the current state of the art of CALL. GroovyGuzi (talk) 12:46, 1 March 2011 (UTC)

The Anti-Vandalism Barnstar

		The Anti-Vandalism Barnstar
		Your code is revolutionary. I can't count how many times you've beat me to an edit, no matter how well-hidden the vandalism was. 43?9enter (talk) 02:46, 7 March 2011 (UTC)

Cluebot is truly amazing. Such a combination of a huge number of edits and an overwhelmingly high percentage of accuracy is beyond belief. Kudos. A F K When Needed 18:19, 26 March 2011 (UTC)

Bah, us human rollbackers with HG and TW are out of business. Cluebot is a warning of what will happen to the proletariat when robots can do complex jobs. --43?9enter ^☭msg_☭contribs 01:54, 4 April 2011 (UTC)

Very decent of you to rollback the vandalism in the page Seyed Mohammad Marandi. As a matter of fact, I would like to ask you to keep a special eye on this page, because it is prone to further vandalism for the sake of the subject matter it covers. Thank you very much. (talk) 3:20, 15 May 2011 (UTC)

This is your only warning; if you revert vandalism before I can again, you may be awarded a barnstar without further notice. Keep it up, and I'll have to start an RfA so I can get rid of you and revert my vandals in peace. WikiPuppies! (bark) 00:04, 9 April 2011 (UTC)

This is your Final Very Extreme Last Only Warning; if you revert vandalism before I can again, you may be awarded a barnstar without further notice. How?? You're going to put us rollbackers out of business illogicalpie(eat me)

This is the only warning you will receive. Your instant vandalism reverts will not be tolerated. Although removing vandalism is encouraged, your ridiculously high speed constitutes a monopoly. The next time you remove vandalism from a page, you may be awarded a barnstar without further notice. --Σ _☭^★ 01:59, 16 May 2011 (UTC)

This is your very final and only warning;If you revert any more vandalism again,you will be awarded loads of barnstars without any further notice. A520 | Talk me away!/sign it! 18:20, 28 May 2011 (UTC) You double beat me with an IP vandal! I don't like that, robot.--1966batfan (talk) 03:00, 31 August 2011 (UTC)

Very impressed with the bot performance less than a nanosecond and the vandalism was gone - well ok not quite that fast but still pretty darn impressive. Only reason I knew about the vandalism were the lines on my watchlist saying it had been reverted. Good job - no false positives out of all the cluebot actions I've seen. :) EdwardLane (talk) 16:06, 16 September 2011 (UTC)

Great work great speed, Especially on stpid vandals like those who hit Google+ Akjar13 (talk) 08:32, 22 September 2011 (UTC)

I like you *hugs ClueBot* -- FG/^T|C 19:51, 22 September 2011 (UTC)

Nice work for reverting the blanking of the History of Cuba page - some anonymous vandal decided to destroy 120KB worth of good work. Thank God for ClueBot, the scarily efficient anti-vandalism machine! ;) Michaelmas1957 (talk) 16:19, 24 September 2011 (UTC)

Thanks for catching the unecessary added wording on the glasses page in the section entitled "invention of eye glasses". The prior anonymous edit contained improper grammar and this added phrase did not add any new useful information to the original content. Cluebot found this non-fortifying phrase and removed it immediately. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Tbashaw (talk • contribs) 21:13, 1 October 2011 (UTC)

Thanks for fixing vandlaism on the Gold Coast Oceanway page. Finally someone with some common sense. :) 124.177.127.92 (talk) 21:21, 14 October 2011 (UTC)

Thank you for reverting the vandalism on Bindi (decoration). Great work! Keep it up! :-) Tinpisa (talk) 22:10, 22 October 2011 (UTC)

Here's some affirmation that ClueBot must be doing something right! ;) -- œ^™ 08:43, 31 October 2011 (UTC)

This is your last warning , if you keep on reverting vandalism you could be continuously praised without further notice.This was a joke! - funkyspyspy

• Excellent work, you fixed the whale shark/whale man vandalism before I could log in and do it myself. --Mr. Snow (talk) 20:28, 25 January 2012 (UTC)

Welcome Back

Hope your vacation went well, and you're ready to for constant vigilance once again. Crazynas ^t 21:33, 9 December 2011 (UTC)

I for one am really glad to see you back. I'm just a regular Wikipedian, but when I heard Cluebot NG went down I started freaking out and ended up watchlisting a bunch of pages, just so I could defend them. I was very concerned about the vandalism that was piling up on Wikipedia, and really hoping that your server issue would be addressed swiftly. Fortunately, the bot's back up and running now, so everything seems much better now. I'm sorry to hear about the dataset issues, but I've looked at its contributions and the vast majority of its reverts are vandalism, which pleases me very much. Seriously, well done on the bot programming, it truly is a remarkable accomplishment. If you ever have trouble with finances again, do speak up and I'm sure we the appreciative community will see what we can do. :D Impressed and pleased, Jessemv (talk) 07:40, 11 December 2011 (UTC)

• Thanks for coming back --Guerillero | My Talk 15:40, 12 December 2011 (UTC)

• So good to see your name again! Big hugz!! fredgandt 18:18, 12 December 2011 (UTC)

Awesome

It's sad how little praise there is here. Anyway I was amazed that Cluebot detected this as vandalism... it has no junk characters, profanity or hate speech, it's a normally-written insertion of a tired but obscure conspiracy theory. Pretty cool that a bot could detect that as vandalism. Nice work. --Runame (talk) 15:07, 10 January 2012 (UTC)

• Thumbs up 'bot. You got there first. benzband (talk) 22:08, 23 January 2012 (UTC)

I, for one, welcome our new robot guardians

ClueBot > Robocop + Chuck Norris. 'Nuff said. Agent 78787 (talk) 02:31, 28 January 2012 (UTC)

Takis Fotopoulos Page

Thank you ClueBot for reverting Takis' page from the vandalism that has been ongoing. john sargis (talk)10:25, 30 January 2012 (UTC)

A warning

You will be blocking IPs next, huh? WOOT! --J (t) 04:09, 1 February 2012 (UTC)

Gaddafi

Darn you Clue Bot! I was so exited that I caught a vandal in the act, and I was just about to revert it, when it disappeared. How can we possibly keep up with you? 169.232.131.133 (talk) 19:08, 8 February 2012 (UTC)

Contributions

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Source

Bot source