[Rack] Lock Wiki Page
Andy Isaacson
adi at hexapodia.org
Mon Apr 7 12:26:43 UTC 2014
On Mon, Apr 07, 2014 at 12:08:13PM +0000, Johny Radio wrote:
> >Second, I fucking copy and pasted the log message showing that I left
> >the page in exactly the state you left it in. While you were reading,
> >your troll came along and edited at around 00:56. Sometimes I'm
> >incompetent and sometimes I make a mistake, but in this case it's
> >pretty
> >annoying of you to displace responsibility and incorrectly accuse me of
> >incompetence.
>
> I'm looking at the page at this moment, 4:50 am san francisco time.
Yes, the history page is also US/Pacific:
https://noisebridge.net/index.php?title=NoiseHack&action=history
> On the page is the text:
>
> -JOHNY RADIO TO BRING OR ARRANGE TO BRING PIZZA AND BEER?
Yes, I was reading mediawiki docs for about 15 minutes during which your
delightful troll edited the page, at 04:36.
Then I hit "semiprotect" at 04:41. I could have gone and re-read the
history, but I didn't bother. Good timing on the troll's part.
Then you loaded the page 10 minutes later, didn't read the history, and
subtly accuse me of being your troll. Smooth move, dude.
> (does the above stat indicate that ip address has made 70 edits to
> the wiki? Maybe time to ban it?)
No, the +70 is the number of characters added to the page. Click on the
IP to see their edit history.
> >You might want to experiment with more sophisticated wiki
> >formatting techniques, the <center> and indent-for-monospace formatting
> >feels pretty Geocities, and the ALLCAPS for random EMPHASIS is
> >obnoxious.
>
> I'm not really looking for formatting tips here, thanks. The page
> delivers the information.
If you just want to deliver the information, stick to the basic wiki
formatting. You're specifically chosing to have your page look like a
90s-ransom-note webpage.
> >Another thing -- if you want to discard a bunch of edits, just go back
> >to the page version you want in History, click on the timestamp to
> >visit
> >the "old page", then click "edit", then click "save" on the resulting
> >page. Your current technique of using the "undo" link for every edit is
> >super annoying.
>
> All these clicks you're recommending are super-annoying. Wikimedia
> provides an "undo" link, so i shall use it. It does the job.
I see, you only had one "undo" in the long list of small edits around
02:00 - 02:30... I misread that to be a sequence of undos. No worries
then.
> any idea why a new account cannot edit it, but an old one can? And
I haven't found a clear explanation, but I think new accounts are
counted as 'unregistered' for 30 days or something like that.
> if new accounts cannot edit it, then would that not stop new troll
> accounts?
Trolls tend to play a long game; we have many thousands of unused
accounts on our wiki.
> Do you happen to recall if you set it to semiprotected before or
> after the above-mentioned 4:36 troll?
It's in the history page, please read.
https://noisebridge.net/index.php?title=NoiseHack&action=history
> Does the wiki disallow hushmail and other temp email hosts for new
> accounts? If not, might that be a good idea?
Nope, that's definitely not under consideration.
-andy
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