Although I can't give specific examples (I know, I know), I have seen bad behaviour of this user as well.
In the situations I've observed, it blanks mainpages or changes them to some sort of message that says "Mediawiki installation successful!" or something like that.
Usually, though, I just revert vandalism rather than keep a log of it. I probably should keep a log of vandalism, because I know that some of it comes from the same IP over and over, but it'd be a bit of a hassle (I mean, I don't even log in to revert most of the time, it's already work enough to wait for pages to load, revert them, etc, especially when quite a few pages have been vandalised across the over 300 wikimedia wikis I monitor).
Mark
On 13/09/05, Timwi timwi@gmx.net wrote:
Arwel Parry wrote:
On the cy: wikipedia we have noticed that user "MediaWiki default" (a bot?) seems to run every 6 months or so and repeatedly resets many of the MediaWiki strings either to an older version which has been corrected or (even worse) to English. I've just had to edit :cy:MediaWiki:Go from "mynd" (travel) to "ewch" (imperative) again!
There was only one edit by "MediaWiki default" that changed "ewch" to "mynd" and that was in May 2004. I don't call that "every 6 months". :)
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