On 7/5/06, Timwi timwi@gmx.net wrote:
Still, though. I'm sure the people will all agree that a wiki primarily aims to work by making it easy to revert vandalism, not by preventing it in the first instance. I just find it surprising (or disappointing, as I
So, has there ever been a serious attempt at implementing a "total user rollback", undoing every change for a specific user after a specific date, where there have been no subsequent changes to the article?
Changes to make it easier for people to flag vandals would also be welcome. Currently, at en, it seems you can put a {{test}} warning on their user page, but that probably won't trigger further action. You can report it to AN/I, but I've never found that system terribly satisfactory from a user's point of view. Being able to flag edits - and by extension, editors - as vandalism would be great. Imagine a system where if 3 different editors have flagged edits by a given editor as "vandalism", it triggers some vandalism-reduction mechanism (like preventing changes being immediately public). Of course, the right to flag vandalism should be revokable to prevent its use in edit wars (and hence, only given, automatically, after some demonstration of commitment to the project...)
Just an idea of how to extend the "make it easy to revert vandalism" idea without impingeing on good editors.
Steve