On Sat, Nov 12, 2011 at 1:31 PM, William Allen Simpson < william.allen.simpson@gmail.com> wrote:
We need technical measures to prevent this from happening, or at least provide prompt warning that an administrator is running amok.
Like what?
Do we have a mechanism for this (I think we do but haven't tried it)? Or if not a working email address (I understand that would be controversial in the large) then a notification system that works across services. Like sending an SMS, or twitter, or g+ posting, or fb message.
Twitter, G+, FB would be rather public.
No more or less public than a posting to the contributor's talk page.
I looked at the code. There's nothing in core to do external notifications. There's a WikiTweet extension, but that's just a twitter-like extension for within MW. It looks like WikiBhasha has JavaScript to share something on Twitter, but that's running in the browser, not on the server which is doing the noticing and sending the notifications.