On Sat, Jun 6, 2009 at 9:02 AM, PlatonidesPlatonides@gmail.com wrote:
David Gerard wrote:
Keeping well-meaning admins from putting Google web bugs in the JavaScript is a game of whack-a-mole.
Are there any technical workarounds feasible? If not blocking the loading of external sites entirely (I understand hu:wp uses a web bug that isn't Google), perhaps at least listing the sites somewhere centrally viewable?
- d.
Make a filter of google analytics (plus all other known web bugs). When it matches, make an admin look at that user contributions (you can just log it and have the admin review it daily or make a complex mail notification system). Even if you blocked it, the admin can bypass any filter. A sysadmin reviewing the code added cannot be fooled so easily.
Taking advantage of this thread. Take a look at http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Search Can those images be moved to a server under our control (WMF, Toolserver...)?
Potentially, those systems they could be retrieving the search queries and ips of all visitors via the referer.
Originally, some of those images were hosted by WMF-FR but was stopped because it overloaded their server.
They should be hosted like a standard image with a FUR and then inculded via a interface message, then the servers should cache them so load shouldn't cause a issue. (although it might be wiser to ask someone better at mediawiki/wikipedia about that)