On Sat, 2003-03-01 at 11:21, Lee Pilich wrote:
Just so everybody knows, IP 62.147.142.55 just added a stack of French-language stubs on sci-fi novels at a rate which suggested they had to be using a bot (over 20 per minute). I've blocked the address to prevent any more being added and left the user a note saying that one needs approval before using a bot, and the French language wikipedia is somewhere else anyway.
This appears to have been due to a problem with Athymik's bot, which he's been testing on test.wikipedia.org. (Probably somehow left out the 'host' header; leaving the default virtual host, the English wiki, as the target.) There shall be words exchanged.
Out of interest, am I right in thinking that if this user were to now make a user account and start again, there's nothing we could do about it until a developer came along to block them?
For the moment.
-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)