[WikiEN-l] Main Page Featured Article

Kirill Lokshin kirill.lokshin at gmail.com
Tue Dec 19 02:10:25 UTC 2006


On 12/18/06, NSLE (Wikipedia) <nsle.wikipedia at gmail.com> wrote:
> I assume most of the list's readers know what problems we've been having
> with the TFA each day on the main page (vandals inserting shock images into
> transcluded-on-transcluded templates). In case some don't, I'm posting this
> to see if anyone has ideas off how to avoid this. It's been discussed
> extensively on ANI, and there does not seem to be a workable solution to it.
> The images are being uploaded by sleeper socks old enough to upload them,
> and protecting every single template on TFA (including
> transcluded-on-transcluded ones) can be tedious for the admins. I've
> suggested perhaps substituting the templates before they become TFA (and
> re-transcluding after), but do the other list readers have any solution?

Wait, is this vandalism happening on templates transcluded into the
full article, or just the TFA blurb that's displayed on the main page?

-- 
Kirill Lokshin



More information about the WikiEN-l mailing list