Andrew Smith wrote:
From: "Tim Starling"
I wrote [[m:Vandalbot]] back in February, and promoted it on en, in the hopes that people would read it, and know what to do in this situation. Unfortunately the page hasn't been promoted on the non-English wikis as much as it should have been. I'll also update it in response to this latest attack. Here's the URL for convenience:
That page still involves tracking down sombody who can help. It does advise readers to become familiar with the process, but human nature being what it is ....
What you have to understand is that it's much easier for me to delete 3000 pages than it is for you to do it. I'm very sorry I didn't do so. In the future I'll watch the reports more closely.
What I would suggest is the idea of the developer (or steward) on duty. Whenever he logs in his name would appear listed in the side-bar, ready to be contacted in an emergency. (If he's nice maybe he'll even have the privilege of turning it off if he wants to work quietly. :-) )
Six months ago we could have guessed, now we can make informed guesses, perhaps in a year's time we'll have a pretty water tight solution.
Microsoft has no shortage of money to throw at this kind of problem, but the hackers still get through.
Ec