Hunter Peress wrote:
Crap, crap, http://meta.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_logo_contest was just vandalised.
If it is ok with some people, I think I should code a feature so that non-registered users are not allowed to delete anymore than 50 characters in a row. (as you just have found out, i hacked around with difflib.php in order to get some ideas for the difflib.py that i worked on, so i could do this quickly).
I believe 50 characters might even be too much.
I think the same should go for adding?
Next, we have to consider that if joe-IPaddress gets a warning that " you have tried to delete 50 characters or more, this is not allowed unless you register" might start to game the system with a wget script.
The simple fact is,however, that they could already do that before this security feature is implemented.
HOWEVER, seeing this warning might incurr more aggressive behaviour on the whole.
What do you think?
i think 50 might be too little. 50 could easily be a malformed sntence of a POV sentence... maybe something like 80, or somewhere around there. Just because 50 chars might easily be a small rewording, especially someplace where html entities are present, since a single one of those is 4 charcters... For en it might be ok, but I don't know if it would work for the foreign wikis
Lightning