On 13/12/05, Daniel Mayer <maveric149(a)yahoo.com> wrote:
--- Jimmy Wales <jwales(a)wikia.com> wrote:
Matt Brown wrote:
My belief is that in general we should not remove
things from page
history so easily.
My belief is that in general we should be aggressive about removing
vandalism from the page history. If there was an automated way to go
through on a regular basis and remove reverted versions from the
history, I would strongly support that we do so.
I think that getting that set-up should be a top development priority. One idea:
A bot with sysop rights could be able to detect admin reverts fairly
easily and delete both the vandalized versions that were reverted
along with the admin's revert version (which would be pointless
clutter at that point).
One problem is that this also removes the edits from the history of
that user, which makes noticing a pattern of vandalism from a single
user tougher. Not sure how significant this is, and there could well
be a workaround, but...
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- Andrew Gray
andrew.gray(a)dunelm.org.uk