Toby Bartels toby+wikipedia@math.ucr.edu wrote: The Cunctator wrote:
Toby Bartels wrote:
- Block more intelligently:
- Give blocked people a way to contact admins:
- Others?
How about not blocking?
An obvious solution to the problems of this weekend. But I don't think that you'll get the rest of Wikipedia to go along with your suggestion. Do you think that the other ideas will make things better? ======
A sysop being able to act by preventing more than one save per xx of time(dunno 2/5 minutes for example) for
- a specific ip - or a specific user name - or all non-logged ips
for a given time (dunno again - say 1 hour) ?
These options allow to slow down vandalism process, in particular *bots*.
It gives more time to (quietly) hunt for the vandals ips, and then eventually proceed to a block.
It does not prevent a "good" wikipedian (unjustifiably blocked by very quick protection measures) to actually edit a page though (even if it might be unpleasant to have to wait to save a page...maybe a good way to promote consequent editing ;-))
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