Page move vandalism help request. This is going to wikipedia-l and wikien-l; hope someone can help...
-------- Original Message -------- Subject: [HelpDesk-l] Moving pages and how to control this Date: Fri, 28 Oct 2005 13:23:25 +0100 (BST) From: Muriel Gottrop gottrop@yahoo.co.uk Reply-To: helpdesk-l@Wikimedia.org To: helpdesk-l@wikimedia.org
Dear all, lets see if anyone can help me (us, since i'm speaking for the wiki.pt)...
Recently we are having problems with a user who finds very funny to create successive accounts with the purpose of moving pages around in a most irritating way. This is very unsual for the wiki.pt, where mass-vandalism problems are fortunately rare. We are aware, however, that they will increase in the future and this kind of incident will repeat itself. We talked about this thing in the Esplanada (the pt village pump) and agreed to start a serious discussion about limiting the [page move] function, as already happens in the english wikipedia.
So, how can we limit new users from moving pages and in what terms? Can we decide a fixed number of editions from which the user can move pages? How does this work?? // Thanks in advance, muriel@pt mailto:muriel@pt //
Alphax wrote:
Page move vandalism help request. This is going to wikipedia-l and wikien-l; hope someone can help...
-------- Original Message -------- From: Muriel Gottrop gottrop@yahoo.co.uk
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So, how can we limit new users from moving pages and in what terms? Can we decide a fixed number of editions from which the user can move pages? How does this work??
The feature in question is enabled on en, de and fr. It denies page moves to new users based on a heuristic which is currently the same for all wikis. For security reasons I'd prefer it if the exact algorithm was not publicised; it's subject to change without notice in any case. I can discuss it privately with known members of the community.
We can enable it for pt if there is a consensus in favour. I know that might be difficult without more public information, but in any case, remember that you, the community, are in control. If it causes problems, you can discuss improvements with me or one of the other developers, or ask that it be switched off.
For more information, try the #wikimedia-tech channel on irc.freenode.net.
-- Tim Starling
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