[Wikipedia-l] Re: multi-headed VANDALS + PANIC button

[lcrocker at nupedia.com]

> What I do fear is some script kiddy with a couple dozen rotating
> proxies and a ship-load of bots flooding the database with junk and
> overwriting 20 articles a minute. A panic button to lock-down the
> site would then be nice (Sorry, I can't protect pages fast enough).
> Then that would give a sysop the time needed to block all the IPs
> of the vandal. But again, I don't think we are at that point yet.

I actually do already have a "lock the database" button available
to developers; maybe I should make that available to sysops as well
(as long as "unlock" is as well, of course)?

I also need to start thinking about some back-end stuff like the cron 
job for making more frequent backups.