Gary Kirk wrote: I think he means something more automatic. [[Wikipedia:Replies_to_common_objections]] If someone launches an extensive attack, all offending IP addresses can be blocked from further editing by the admins. We can develop ad hoc technical measures to disallow certain edits, or to revert edits that meet certain criteria (...) In an emergency, we can revert all changes made since a certain time. There's maintenance/cleanupSpam.php but it reverts pages linking to a web. You would need to modify it to revert all edits of an user. Odd it doesn't exist yet, though.

Special:Nuke will mass-delete edits from a given user or IP address. http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Nuke DanB --------------------- Confidentiality note The information in this email and any attachment may contain confidential and proprietary information of VistaPrint and/or its affiliates and may be privileged or otherwise protected from disclosure. If you are not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any review, reliance or distribution by others or forwarding without express permission is strictly prohibited and may cause liability. In case you have received this message due to an error in transmission, please notify the sender immediately and delete this email and any attachment from your system. ---------------------