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Due to the ability of the script to revert edits extremely quickly, it is required for the user to have the rollback right, or to be included in the script's whitelist.If you do not have the rollback right, you can make a request at the permissions page (eligible users must have at least 200 mainspace edits and no history of edit warring).
Screenshot of Wikipedia recent changes IRC feed. The old school way is to load recent changes and check the (diff) links. It can be filtered according to featured articles, good articles, living people, new accounts' contribs, IPs' contribs, mobile contribs (as these are more prone to vandalism, see Help:Recent changes), and even by likelihood of being damaging or bad-faith.
IRC Bots report at the #cvn-wp-en connect channel on the Libera Chat network list suspected vandalism edits (for example: blankings, edits made by blacklisted users, etc.). Lupin's Anti-Vandal Tool monitors the RSS feed and flags edits with common vandalism terms. It also has a live spellcheck feature.
You will probably collect a long list of false-positive terms (e.g., "poop deck" for "poop") to narrow the list down to a (relatively) manageable couple hundred. But even those results need to be checked one by one. A downside to this method is that it cannot catch subtle vandalism, only the blatant kind (and any subtle vandalism included with it).
The most well-known bot that fights vandalism is ClueBot NG. The bot was created by Wikipedia users Christopher Breneman and Naomi Amethyst in 2010 (succeeding the original ClueBot created in 2007; NG stands for Next Generation) [9] and uses machine learning and Bayesian statistics to determine if an edit is vandalism.
Wikipedia:Vandals versus Trolls; W. Help:Wikipedia: The Missing Manual/Editing, creating, and maintaining articles/Dealing with vandalism and spam;
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