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Raphael Wegmann wrote:
Hi,
as everybody probably knows here, userboxes made vote-stacking und campaigning easy, since one can easily find the "right" people to vote on a subject.
Maybe a technical solution to this problem is possible. What if a bot substitutes all userboxes on the user-pages? Maybe it's even possible to somehow "tag" a template, so it is always substituted? This could be used on warning templates as well.
It's honestly really funny that you should mention this today, because if you check the pywikipediabot CVS logs for yesterday, you'll see that I committed a change to the template bot that allows an arbitrarily large number of templates to be substituted or deleted from an arbitrarily large number of pages all in a single command.
Of course this wouldn't eliminate vote-stacking at all, since one can still find the "right" people on various Wikiproject pages, but IMHO it's still a step in the right direction.
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