On 4/16/05, Yann Forget yann@forget-me.net wrote:
I advocate blocking projects when there is no real activity until one or several volunteer(s) come(s) It would prevent them being squatted by spammers like the Slovak Wiktionary recently (21 articles).
This was already proposed some time ago and a page was made on Meta in order to have a general overview of the situation. However AFAIKno action was taken.
I created the Inactive wikis page (http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Inactive_wikis) for this, but I'm not sure now whether I agree with what I proposed there. It was never clear whether one person requesting a wiki to be locked or unlocked was enough, or whether there ought to be more of a procedure for this. Very few wikis were ever locked as a result of this proposal, though I don't know how much of this was related to the objections to the procedure and how much was just due to a lack of motivation by the stewards to lock these wikis.
Spam and vandalism at inactive wikis can be reported at http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Vandalism_reports.
Angela.