[Foundation-l] ass pus on IRC

Mon Jun 6 05:25:24 UTC 2005

G'day all,

Most people would be aware of the boring vandal who insists on putting
"ass pus" and "pelican shit" on the front pages of many of our
projects (at least english ones, i dont know about other langs). Well
on the smaller projects (such as wikibooks, wikinews etc) it can often
be some time before an admin happens to look at the front page and
realise someone needs banning. Yesterday s/he vanadalised for almost
half an hour before i saw the front page of wikibooks and banned
him/er.

Anyway my suggestion is this, create an rc bot in irc which reports on
any non-admin edit to the front page (or any of the front page
templates) on all the projects (except perhaps wikinews whose front
page tends to change a lot more than other projects, and wikipedia who
is just so huge that it doesnt really need it), and either create a
new chanell for it (like all the other rc chanells) or just put it
straight into one of the frequently used chanells such as #wikimedia.
If this has already been done, i apoligise since i havent been able to
get onto IRC in the last few months due to the stupid uni network im
behind.

just an idea...

paz y amor,
-rjs.

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