Lawlessness on the wiki
Moderator: Lucifer
Lawlessness on the wiki
The past couple of days there seems to be an endless supply of idiotic if not just plain old spam edits on the wiki. Way too much for an individual to sift through in a reasonable time frame.
Can anyone devise a plan to deal with this?(aimed mostly at Luci & tank{somewhat at wrtl jonathan and nemo})
Half witted ideas
A. Rollback the wiki several days completly(there have been no actual edits in some time afaik) and block the ip's involved
B. Split up the nonsensical posts for individuals to revert/ban.
Can anyone devise a plan to deal with this?(aimed mostly at Luci & tank{somewhat at wrtl jonathan and nemo})
Half witted ideas
A. Rollback the wiki several days completly(there have been no actual edits in some time afaik) and block the ip's involved
B. Split up the nonsensical posts for individuals to revert/ban.
- Jonathan
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Got myself a strategy and reverted everything in ~15 mins: recent changes
- Tank Program
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Can Jonathan save us again? Please.
Other solutions still welcome even if Jonathan saves the day again. I still think the amount of spam here could be filtered out or something.
Maybe even something like only members 1 week old may post external links on the wiki. Allows anonymous edits, won't hamper most everyday wiki users. Not sure how you could implement such a system though. Just tossing out ideas.
Other solutions still welcome even if Jonathan saves the day again. I still think the amount of spam here could be filtered out or something.
Maybe even something like only members 1 week old may post external links on the wiki. Allows anonymous edits, won't hamper most everyday wiki users. Not sure how you could implement such a system though. Just tossing out ideas.
- Lucifer
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That would require a level of integration between phpBB and mediawiki that we don't currently have, or manual intervention (meaning no new users will ever be able to edit the wiki), and would provide us a "feature" we don't want by forcing users to register here before they can edit the wiki./dev/null wrote:How about you only let people who are registered on here and have been so for a week or more edit the wiki.
- Tank Program
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- Tank Program
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- Joined: Thu Dec 18, 2003 7:03 pm