On 4/16/05, Yann Forget <yann(a)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.