On Monday 29 July 2002 12:01 pm, you wrote:
I actually do already have a "lock the
database" button available
to developers; maybe I should make that available to sysops as well
(as long as "unlock" is as well, of course)?
I also need to start thinking about some back-end stuff like the cron
job for making more frequent backups.
Cool. This would of course have to be approved by our benevolent dictator,
er, benefactor Jimbo. Is this feature bug-free enough to trust mere sysops
with?
Hopefully such a panic button will /never/ have to be used. But having a
"protect all pages" button will give me, and I suspect others, some peace of
mind.
However, there will have to be severe limitations on any use of this function
though. If a sysop and the community can reasonably keep up with such an
attack this feature should /not/ be used. But 10 vandalized articles or more
a minute over multiple minutes would begin to be very taxing, esp. if a bunch
of different IPs are being used by the vandal.
--mav