We now have a persistent rapid-fire page-move vandal or vandals, using the terms "Willy on Wheels" (and variants), "Pelican shit" (and variants) and now "Sockster". We urgently need per-user-account and per-IP rate limiting on page moves for non-admins. The user's MO appears to be (according to a Slashdot post, which may be from them) to use a tabbed browser to line up a load of page moves in advance, and then to commit them all at once. They _claim_ to be using bots, or to be a giant army of cooperating trolls, but at the moment I doubt this. A "leaky bucket" rate limiter with a bucket size of three moves, and a refill rate of one page move per minute would seem like a good first hack at the rate limit. Needless to say, rate limiting should not apply to admins, as they need to be able to clean up the mess faster than it is created. And yes, a single-click page move undo would be good too, but I can't see that being ready for some time to come. -- Neil

We now have a persistent rapid-fire page-move vandal or vandals, using the terms "Willy on Wheels" (and variants), "Pelican shit" (and variants) and now "Sockster". We urgently need per-user-account and per-IP rate limiting on page moves for non-admins. The user's MO appears to be (according to a Slashdot post, which may be from them) to use a tabbed browser to line up a load of page moves in advance, and then to commit them all at once. They _claim_ to be using bots, or to be a giant army of cooperating trolls, but at the moment I doubt this. A "leaky bucket" rate limiter with a bucket size of three moves, and a refill rate of one page move per minute would seem like a good first hack at the rate limit. Needless to say, rate limiting should not apply to admins, as they need to be able to clean up the mess faster than it is created. A page move log would also be a very good idea: at the moment, it is very hard to track who is doing what among the welter of edits. And yes, a single-click page move undo would be good too, but I can't see that being ready for some time to come. I see that there are already other requests about this at [[en:Wikipedia_talk:Requested_moves/Min_edit_count]], and http://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1546 -- Neil _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l(a)wikimedia.org http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l