[Foundation-l] Corporate vanity policy enforcement

[Voice of All]

I'd be interested in helping with any sort of client & server side
development. Not only can it be more covert and difficult to analyize and
circumvent, but since sending script may sometime be easier than actually
running a server-side version, there is the chance that it might be easier
on the servers to implement something of this sort.


Tim Starling-2 wrote:
> 
> Wouldn't it be better to apply the filter retroactively, i.e. to delete 
> orphan articles with human confirmation some time after they are created?
> If 
> we put in profanity filters to prevent bad page saves, Wikipedia would 
> suddenly be overwhelmed with 5H1t, if you understand my meaning. But the 
> current system of IRC notification and semi-automated reversion is
> strangely 
> effective.
> 
> Let's say for argument's sake that maybe there is a way to automatically 
> recognise PR fluff, even if the best method is not by orphan status as
> geni 
> has suggested. Then you can automate the process of deleting it. Display a 
> big list of articles with a column of checkboxes, click "select all",
> select 
> "CSD a7" from a drop-down list, click "delete". Wham, all gone. Keep the 
> filters covert as much as possible, e.g. on the client side.
> 
> These kinds of features are the things we're trying to encourage with what 
> I've been calling "hybrid" development, i.e. simultaneous development on
> the 
> client and server. Get the client-side developers interested, ask them
> what 
> they need on the server side in support, and we server-side developers
> will 
> see if we can incorporate it into an API or extension.
> 
> -- Tim Starling
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