[Foundation-l] Re: New variant on an old idea

Fri Dec 16 19:21:06 UTC 2005

Fennec Foxen schreef:
> A new variant on an old idea follows.
> 
> I propose a new variant on protection of pages, a sort of "deferred
> edits" solution, to be used on high-traffic vandalism targets a la
> George W Bush and other presidential candidates.
> 
> Someone vandalizes GWB. Someone reverts the vandalism, say, sixty
> seconds to three or four minutes later. (Hey, the wiki is danged slow
> sometime.) The vandalism is gone. In those sixty seconds, however,
> someone may have viewed the page.
> 
> My solution would be a feature that would defer any edits for a short
> period of time, say, five minutes. If the revision remains unchanged
> (unedited, unreverted, un-rolledback) for those five minutes, it
> becomes the currently displayed 'article'. This should provide an
> adequate window during which such vandalism can be reverted, without
> it ever being displayed.
> 
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This would be a fantastic function. But the are dreams :(

My dream is that I can block a ipadress but still give access to the
wiki for registered users of that ipadres.

http://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/550

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