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