On 4 Feb 2008 at 11:05, "Mathias Schindler"
<mathias.schindler(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> A better choice would be a patch the firefox sources that disables
> rendering of images that contain "muhammad" (in different
> spellings) that needs recompilation of firefox.
Then they'd be out of luck if they wanted to see Muhammed Ali.
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From wikitech-l. Apologies if this is a duplicate, Gmane doesn't like me.
-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Re: Deletion of large pages
Date: Mon, 04 Feb 2008 15:34:12 +1100
From: Tim Starling
Majorly wrote:
> On 04/02/2008, Tim Starling <tstarling-AeOJrEpdGNeGglJvpFV4uA(a)public.gmane.org> wrote:
>> Matthew Britton wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> Remember the revision limit on page deletions that was
>>> hacked in to prevent Wikimedia grinding to a halt every
>>> time someone tried to delete a large page?
>>>
>>> Well, give someone a feature and they will abuse it in ways
>>> you never thought possible. Bots are now being used to add
>>> thousands of revisions to pages to make them un-deleteable.
>>> See the history of the English Wikipedia's Main Page for an
>>> example.
>>>
>>> Just thought you should know.
>> I'm going to block anyone who does this.
>
> It has been done already. See the Main Page history on enwiki.
>
I know, and I blocked BetacommandBot for it. After working out the full
details of what happened here, I'd like to additionally propose that
East718 be desysopped for his involvement in it.
East718 and Betacommand got together, and decided between themselves,
apparently without review or approval by any other party, that they would
add 1200 junk revisions to the main page. Betacommand edited
[[User:East718/empty]] the requisite number of times, and then East718
deleted the main page, moved his subpage to [[Main Page]], and then
undeleted it to merge the histories.
I would like the community to consider desysopping East718 for abuse of
admin powers. I'm cc-ing this message to wikien-l for community review of
this proposal.
-- Tim Starling
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/05/books/05wiki.html?ref=world
Media coverage of the Muhammad image problem.
On Feb 5, 2008 9:14 AM, Steve Summit <scs(a)eskimo.com> wrote:
> David Gerard wrote:
> > For me the greatest concern of a censorship mechanism is that it
> > blatantly encourages NPOV violation as common practice.
>
> "Censorship" is of course a heavily loaded word, but I've never
> viewed content-tagging mechanisms, or "hide" mechanisms that are
> positively *un*hidden by default, as censorship.
>
> (But yes, were such mechanisms in place, I suppose epic POV
> battles would be bound to erupt around the question of whether to
> use them in particular cases, immaterial though the outcome would
> be to the majority of readers who browse using default settings.)
>
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On Sun, 3 Feb 2008 11:20:21 -0500, Philip Sandifer
<snowspinner(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> On Feb 3, 2008, at 11:13 AM, Majorly wrote:
>
> > Looks like the op was trolling in that log.
>
> That seems to me inconsistent with a banned user initiating a
> conversation with an op and then posting it to a mailing list while
> trying to obscure the fact that he's the person talking to the op.
I see nothing inconsistent, or even unlikely or uncommon, about two
different people in the same discussion both acting like
[[WP:DICK]]s.
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In a message dated 2/4/2008 6:02:02 P.M. Pacific Standard Time,
james.farrar(a)gmail.com writes:
Appeasement is never good, it almost invariably leads to further demands.>>
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Thank you for the Sudatenland. I'd like half of Poland now.
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On Fri, 01 Feb 2008 22:24:24 -0700, Bryan Derksen
<bryan.derksen(a)shaw.ca> wrote:
> I find it hard to believe that the subjects of most of those articles
> were even remotely in the same ballpark of notability as a random
> episode from the TV show Scrubs, which is watched by millions and has a
> dedicated fan base. But articles about galaxies are Scholarly, so I
> don't expect anyone's going to purge that particular pile of minutiae
> any time soon. Better to go after the stuff that actually
> _distinguishes_ us from the Traditional and Scholarly encyclopedias.
But they're *galaxies*... they've got millions of stars in them, and
maybe a few intelligent civilizations that have created a whole bunch
of their equivalent of TV episodes. There may be plenty of reliable
sources out there for all of this, it's just that they're all
published in the other galaxy and we have no way of accessing them or
even knowing they exist.
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Use of the word "the" is abhorrent to my religion.
I demand all use of the word "the" be stricken from Wikipedia.
I have to go purify myself because I've used the word "the".
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