William Allen Simpson wrote:
It amazes me, but several times in the past week, I've been blindsided by page move vandals. The current restriction apparently allows moves automatically after a week?
I'm surprised it hasn't been said yet, but the classic wiki solution to page move vandalism is not to put up barriers to making contributions, but rather to make vandalism easier to revert. I made a "revert" link in the page move log a while back, but a lot of people don't know about it, and it's far from ideal. What we really need is a big list of checkboxes on the user contribution page, with a "select all" box. Click select all, click revert, job done. The function would be restricted in the same way as rollback. With the 1.5 schema, moving pages is quite a fast operation, similar to editing.
Throttling is necessary to prevent extremely high request rate attacks, but it should be set to a level that won't inconvenience regular users. The UserThrottle extension can be adapted for this purpose.
If you can't revert page moves in a shorter time than it takes to perform them in the first place, then there's a problem with our user interface.
-- Tim Starling