[Wikipedia-l] Re: Attack against chinese wiki

[Tim Starling]

Ting Chen wrote:
> Hello People,
> 
> thanks for everyone who have offered help, who have helped and who have
> given advise. This was the second time that we experienced such an attack,
> and the attack took place as most of our sysops (located at UTC+8h) are
> offline. I think we are also learning how to handle such things. And your
> advices are very valuable for us. It's a pleasure and it's very moving to
> get so much helps from so different places arround the world so fast. Thanks
> anyway, this is a great community and I believe I can speak for all chinese
> wikipedians that we are happy to be a member of it.
> 
> I want yet say one thing. My own oppinion about the deleteBot. I personally
> don't like this ideal, because such a tool, powerful it is, could also used
> to do great devastation, and one cannot expect that such lots of people
> would be careful for all their live. So please let it unused and we would
> contact the developers properly next time.

I think I'll be using the deletion bot next time, despite the fact that 
I have write access to the database. Doing large-scale write queries on 
the cur table is scary. With the bot, everything is automatically backed 
up in the archive table, and so there's very little chance of permanent 
data loss.

-- Tim Starling