Toby Bartels <toby+wikipedia(a)math.ucr.edu> wrote:
The Cunctator wrote:
Toby Bartels wrote:
>* Block more intelligently:
>* Give blocked people a way to contact admins:
>* Others?
How about not blocking?
An obvious solution to the problems of this weekend.
But I don't think that you'll get the rest of Wikipedia
to go along with your suggestion.
Do you think that the other ideas will make things better?
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A sysop being able to act by preventing more than one save per xx of time(dunno 2/5
minutes for example) for
- a specific ip
- or a specific user name
- or all non-logged ips
for a given time (dunno again - say 1 hour) ?
These options allow to slow down vandalism process, in particular *bots*.
It gives more time to (quietly) hunt for the vandals ips, and then eventually proceed to a
block.
It does not prevent a "good" wikipedian (unjustifiably blocked by very quick
protection measures) to actually edit a page though (even if it might be unpleasant to
have to wait to save a page...maybe a good way to promote consequent editing ;-))
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