Restrcitions like this may have unwanted affects on large legit proxy/ ISP proxy servers.
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----- Original Message ----- From: "William Allen Simpson" william.allen.simpson@gmail.com To: "Wikimedia developers" wikitech-l@wikimedia.org Sent: Sunday, July 02, 2006 3:24 PM Subject: [Wikitech-l] page move vandalism restrictions not working
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?
So, for example, we see see "User:Thing that goes on feet" create a new user on 2006-06-20 07:38:17, make no contributions for over a week, and suddenly do nearly 100 moves from 2006-07-01 13:46:01 to 13:52:55.
That's right, as many as 4 moves per second!
So, I propose 2 things:
No bot or editor or administrator should be able to do more than 1 move per minute. Just reject them. That should be easy to do in software. And maybe enforcement of clearing double redirects.
No bot or editor should be able to do more than 1 edit per 20 seconds. Just queue the edit until the time has elapsed. Of course, administrators should be able to go faster, as they may be hurrying to fix a problem.
Heck, these days I often have to wait half a minute to see the response anyway. But I've noticed "edits" at a rate of 2-3 per second from "normal" editors at times, and when confronted they've claimed they aren't using a bot. Maybe not, but slow them down enough that others can notice the changes and react in human time frames.
Bug 6513
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