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&am…
*http://fr.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Discuter:Accueil&diff=prev&oldid=1595496>
*http://fr.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Dieu&diff=prev&oldid=1566454
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.