On Sat, Nov 12, 2011 at 1:31 PM, William Allen Simpson <
william.allen.simpson(a)gmail.com> wrote:
We need technical measures to prevent this from
happening, or at least
provide prompt warning that an administrator is running amok.
Like what?
Do we have a
mechanism for this (I think we do but haven't
tried it)? Or if not a working email address (I understand that would be
controversial in the large) then a notification system that works across
services. Like sending an SMS, or twitter, or g+ posting, or fb message.
Twitter, G+, FB would be rather public.
No more or less public than a posting to the contributor's talk page.
I looked at the code. There's nothing in core to do external notifications.
There's a WikiTweet extension, but that's just a twitter-like extension for
within MW. It looks like WikiBhasha has JavaScript to share something on
Twitter, but that's running in the browser, not on the server which is
doing the noticing and sending the notifications.