Due to popular demand (I'm told consensus), I've disabled interwiki redirects on all projects. Also, redirects to special pages are disabled, which use the same mechanism and so are just as hard to revert.
-- Tim Starling
Tim Starling (t.starling@physics.unimelb.edu.au) [050330 14:44]:
Due to popular demand (I'm told consensus), I've disabled interwiki redirects on all projects. Also, redirects to special pages are disabled, which use the same mechanism and so are just as hard to revert.
Now loads the redirect, shows you what you're about to click on. Perfect.
(Of course, the vandals will upload an offending image under an inoffensive name before adding their link. But anyway.)
- d.
Tim Starling wrote:
Due to popular demand (I'm told consensus), I've disabled interwiki redirects on all projects. Also, redirects to special pages are disabled, which use the same mechanism and so are just as hard to revert.
-- Tim Starling
Just in time! We had a massive page-move vandal attack on cy:wikipedia between 0203 and 0232 UTC this morning, when users cy:Defnyddiwr:SPUI and cy:Defnyddiwr:OldakQuill managed to screw up a considerable number of pages - moving them, then deleting and recreating original page names with redirects to en:Image:Autofellatio_2.jpg
Arwel Parry wrote:
Just in time! We had a massive page-move vandal attack on cy:wikipedia between 0203 and 0232 UTC this morning, when users cy:Defnyddiwr:SPUI and cy:Defnyddiwr:OldakQuill managed to screw up a considerable number of pages - moving them, then deleting and recreating original page names with redirects to en:Image:Autofellatio_2.jpg
And probably the same vandal also created a lot of chaos on the Klingon Wikipedia, many changes now need an admin to delete the pages blocking the simple move back. Apparently that vandal now prefers the small WPs, where he can do his sick work without being disturbed by admins lurking the recent changes.
And yes, it was time to switch off this feature, even though the vandals will find new ways of creating havoc.
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Arwel Parry (arwel@cartref.demon.co.uk) [050331 00:59]:
Just in time! We had a massive page-move vandal attack on cy:wikipedia between 0203 and 0232 UTC this morning, when users cy:Defnyddiwr:SPUI and cy:Defnyddiwr:OldakQuill managed to screw up a considerable number of pages - moving them, then deleting and recreating original page names with redirects to en:Image:Autofellatio_2.jpg
By the way, I've put up what appears to be the first ever mirror site for cy: Wikipedia: http://factsite.co.uk/cy/ . I plan to mirror all the British native languages. Currently having fun wrestling with the en: SQL dump ...
- d.
David Gerard wrote:
Arwel Parry (arwel@cartref.demon.co.uk) [050331 00:59]:
Just in time! We had a massive page-move vandal attack on cy:wikipedia between 0203 and 0232 UTC this morning, when users cy:Defnyddiwr:SPUI and cy:Defnyddiwr:OldakQuill managed to screw up a considerable number of pages - moving them, then deleting and recreating original page names with redirects to en:Image:Autofellatio_2.jpg
By the way, I've put up what appears to be the first ever mirror site for cy: Wikipedia: http://factsite.co.uk/cy/ . I plan to mirror all the British native languages. Currently having fun wrestling with the en: SQL dump ...
- d.
Nice! :) By the way, it's Wicipedia Cymraeg, not Cymraeg Wicipedia - the subject comes before any qualifiers.
After spending five hours straightening out cy.wikipedia today, Deb and I were wondering if it would be worthwhile / possible to remove the #redirect command in English, so that potential non-Welsh-speaking vandals would at least have to learn what the Welsh for "redirect" actually is before they try to screw up the database.
On Wed, 30 Mar 2005 23:40:03 +0100, Arwel Parry arwel@cartref.demon.co.uk wrote:
After spending five hours straightening out cy.wikipedia today, Deb and I were wondering if it would be worthwhile / possible to remove the #redirect command in English, so that potential non-Welsh-speaking vandals would at least have to learn what the Welsh for "redirect" actually is before they try to screw up the database.
As we're talking about #redirect translations - could someone give me the Icelandic, Rusian, Serbian and Tatar forms? And as I'm at it, the {{PAGENAME}} for Bulgarian, Icelandic, Russian and Tatar too? I tried to get them from CVS, but I don't get the Unicode en/decoded correctly.
Andre Engels
Andre Engels пишет:
As we're talking about #redirect translations - could someone give me the Icelandic, Rusian, Serbian and Tatar forms? And as I'm at it, the {{PAGENAME}} for Bulgarian, Icelandic, Russian and Tatar too? I tried to get them from CVS, but I don't get the Unicode en/decoded correctly.
Russian forms you can get from HEAD revision in CVS: http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py/wikipedia/phase3/languages/LanguageRu....
#redirect - #перенаправление (or short #перенапр)
PAGENAME - НАЗВАНИЕСТРАНИЦЫ (НАЗВАНИЕ - "name", СТРАНИЦЫ - "page" in genetive)
Arwel: It's a good idea. Do you already have it enabled in Welsh though (ie bilingual), or are they all in English currently?
I think that would massively cut down on the amount of redirect vandalism.
Similarly, if the interface of aa.wikipedia were actually in Afar, people would stop using it for their stupid tests.
Speaking of which, a lot of people who make new pages on inactive Wikipedias seem to have typed the URL wrong. For example, if somebody meant to go to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dzlapaapa, they might accidentally go to http://dz.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dzlapaapa and then not realise they're actually at the Druk Yul (dragon language) Wikipedia.
Mark
On Wed, 30 Mar 2005 23:40:03 +0100, Arwel Parry arwel@cartref.demon.co.uk wrote:
David Gerard wrote:
Arwel Parry (arwel@cartref.demon.co.uk) [050331 00:59]:
Just in time! We had a massive page-move vandal attack on cy:wikipedia between 0203 and 0232 UTC this morning, when users cy:Defnyddiwr:SPUI and cy:Defnyddiwr:OldakQuill managed to screw up a considerable number of pages - moving them, then deleting and recreating original page names with redirects to en:Image:Autofellatio_2.jpg
By the way, I've put up what appears to be the first ever mirror site for cy: Wikipedia: http://factsite.co.uk/cy/ . I plan to mirror all the British native languages. Currently having fun wrestling with the en: SQL dump ...
- d.
Nice! :) By the way, it's Wicipedia Cymraeg, not Cymraeg Wicipedia - the subject comes before any qualifiers.
After spending five hours straightening out cy.wikipedia today, Deb and I were wondering if it would be worthwhile / possible to remove the #redirect command in English, so that potential non-Welsh-speaking vandals would at least have to learn what the Welsh for "redirect" actually is before they try to screw up the database.
-- Arwel Parry http://www.cartref.demon.co.uk/
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Mark Williamson wrote:
Arwel: It's a good idea. Do you already have it enabled in Welsh though (ie bilingual), or are they all in English currently?
It's been bilingual almost since we were converted to MediaWiki.
I think that would massively cut down on the amount of redirect vandalism.
Similarly, if the interface of aa.wikipedia were actually in Afar, people would stop using it for their stupid tests.
Speaking of which, a lot of people who make new pages on inactive Wikipedias seem to have typed the URL wrong. For example, if somebody meant to go to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dzlapaapa, they might accidentally go to http://dz.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dzlapaapa and then not realise they're actually at the Druk Yul (dragon language) Wikipedia.
Mark
On Wed, 30 Mar 2005 23:40:03 +0100, Arwel Parry arwel@cartref.demon.co.uk wrote:
After spending five hours straightening out cy.wikipedia today, Deb and I were wondering if it would be worthwhile / possible to remove the #redirect command in English, so that potential non-Welsh-speaking vandals would at least have to learn what the Welsh for "redirect" actually is before they try to screw up the database.
Arwel Parry wrote:
Mark Williamson wrote:
Arwel: It's a good idea. Do you already have it enabled in Welsh though (ie bilingual), or are they all in English currently?
It's been bilingual almost since we were converted to MediaWiki.
I think that would massively cut down on the amount of redirect vandalism.
I'm afraid I don't think it's such a good idea now - later last night the vandal returned (though he limited his vandalism to redirecting my talk page to "fr:en:Image:autofellatio_2.jpg") and he has already found out what the Welsh for "redirect" is! :(
Looking at the debate on [[en:WP:IFD]] on deleting that image, I'm rather discouraged that the majority seems to be adopting an ultraliberal permissive view of the desirability of this type of image, regardless of its' being a vandal magnet with deleterious effects on minor language wikipedias, and not being particularly necessary to illustrate an article.
Similarly, if the interface of aa.wikipedia were actually in Afar, people would stop using it for their stupid tests.
Speaking of which, a lot of people who make new pages on inactive Wikipedias seem to have typed the URL wrong. For example, if somebody meant to go to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dzlapaapa, they might accidentally go to http://dz.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dzlapaapa and then not realise they're actually at the Druk Yul (dragon language) Wikipedia.
Mark
On Wed, 30 Mar 2005 23:40:03 +0100, Arwel Parry arwel@cartref.demon.co.uk wrote:
After spending five hours straightening out cy.wikipedia today, Deb and I were wondering if it would be worthwhile / possible to remove the #redirect command in English, so that potential non-Welsh-speaking vandals would at least have to learn what the Welsh for "redirect" actually is before they try to screw up the database.
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