On Fri, Jun 17, 2011 at 22:08, Chris Lee <theornamentalist(a)gmail.com> wrote: What was it that lasted only a minute, Chris?

On Sat, Jun 18, 2011 at 10:13, Domas Mituzas <midom.lists(a)gmail.com> wrote: Impossible. I'm sure one minute has passed but I still see vandalism occasionally. :-) g

Ha, to clarify, the entire background on any visited page was replaced with swastikas and porn; along the top read "brought to you by meepsheep", who I've since learned is a blocked user. On Sat, Jun 18, 2011 at 7:08 AM, Strainu <strainu10(a)gmail.com> wrote:

On Sat, Jun 18, 2011 at 12:25 PM, Chris Lee <theornamentalist(a)gmail.com> wrote: Yeah, that does happen sometimes. The cause is usually "template vandalism", where a vandal adds some content to an unprotected template that's used in a few pages. This makes it difficult for new users to find out what happened and usually freaks people out. :-) If you run into this again, you should include a description of what happened and a link to the page you were on when you saw the issue when reporting it. If you wanted to try to fix it yourself, you could click "Related changes" in the sidebar under toolbox and then restrict that to just templates. That will show you a recent changes page just for templates included in that article. Hope this helps! -- Casey Brown Cbrown1023

Sage Ross wrote: I think it was the "Facebook" template on the English Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template:Facebook&action=hist… MZMcBride

On Sun, Jun 19, 2011 at 12:22 PM, Risker <risker.wp(a)gmail.com> wrote: I think he might have been going with Chris' assertation that every page was affected, which doesn't appear to be true - the template's transcluded on just under 1,000 pages. My guess is that all of the pages Chris saw were affected, but the vast majority of articles weren't, meaning that it's not anything new. I recognize that this is probably a touchy issue given the controversy on the English Wikipedia over flagged revisions (which I thankfully wasn't a part of), but maybe flipping flagged revisions on for everything in the template namespace would help the cause. Certainly most edits to templates are fine, but when it comes to truly malicious vandalism (as opposed to newbie test edits, and young kids screwing around) templates are both the most affected, and the most visible. As-is, a number of highly visible templates are fully protected, so this would be a step down in many cases and a step up for many others. -- [[User:Ral315]]

On Sun, Jun 19, 2011 at 5:06 PM, Chris Lee &lt;theornamentalist(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote: It was this template then, which is now protected: <http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template:Cite_arxiv&action=history> -- Casey Brown Cbrown1023

On 06/19/2011 07:37 PM, Ryan Lomonaco wrote: Indeed. I believe that one of the main points against flagged revisions is that they will put off new users because their edits won't be immediately visible, however very few new users start by editing templates.

Perhaps not. One of the weaknesses of flagged revisions is that it enshrines vandalism. The required review of all changes and redaction of personal attacks only adds more steps to the resolution of each episode of vandalism. Semi-protection would be more likely to halt inappropriate edits to templates without unnecessarily adding to anyone's workload. Risker/Anne Sent from my BlackBerry device on the Rogers Wireless Network -----Original Message----- From: Samuel Klein &lt;meta.sj(a)gmail.com&gt; Sender: foundation-l-bounces(a)lists.wikimedia.org Date: Mon, 20 Jun 2011 02:04:32 To: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List&lt;foundation-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org&gt; Reply-To: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List &lt;foundation-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org&gt; Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] en.wp HACKED? This is a great idea. SJ On Mon, Jun 20, 2011 at 1:45 AM, Nikola Smolenski &lt;smolensk(a)eunet.rs&gt; wrote: -- Samuel Klein          identi.ca:sj           w:user:sj          +1 617 529 4266 _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l