G'day all,
Most people would be aware of the boring vandal who insists on putting "ass pus" and "pelican shit" on the front pages of many of our projects (at least english ones, i dont know about other langs). Well on the smaller projects (such as wikibooks, wikinews etc) it can often be some time before an admin happens to look at the front page and realise someone needs banning. Yesterday s/he vanadalised for almost half an hour before i saw the front page of wikibooks and banned him/er.
Anyway my suggestion is this, create an rc bot in irc which reports on any non-admin edit to the front page (or any of the front page templates) on all the projects (except perhaps wikinews whose front page tends to change a lot more than other projects, and wikipedia who is just so huge that it doesnt really need it), and either create a new chanell for it (like all the other rc chanells) or just put it straight into one of the frequently used chanells such as #wikimedia. If this has already been done, i apoligise since i havent been able to get onto IRC in the last few months due to the stupid uni network im behind.
just an idea...
paz y amor, -rjs.