Anthere said:
stupid question :
We have a contributor, who is degrading our content.
In particular, when he edits, some words disappear, or parts of words do.
A couple of examples :
http://fr.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Discussion_Utilisateur:Anthere&... *http://fr.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Discuter:Accueil&diff=prev&... *http://fr.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Dieu&diff=prev&oldid=15664...
For those who do not know : "femmes" means "women".
Now... this guy argues that he is not responsible of the consequences of his edits, that either he has a virus, or that his browser (Firefox) is responsible of the word damaging and removal of all references to women.
Now...
What do you suggest ? In all good faith ? Seriously ?
Ask him to submit a bug report--Hardware, OS, browser version, extensions and plugins in use, character set if known, keyboard settings in use. Ask him to check with a different browser (IE, Opera, whatever is available to him). Ask him to play around on the en or de sandboxes, as well as fr, to see if he can reproduce the problem on another MediaWiki. Ask him to report any other odd behavior he has noticed, particularly when editing forums or wikis using that browser. Has he had complaints from users of other web-hosted systems about his posts mangling quoted text, or whatever? Meanwhile remind him that he shouldn't continue to knowingly use software that may damage the wiki. What you do if he refuses is a matter for your local wiki policy.