On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 06:43:21PM +0200, H. Langos wrote: > > Yesterday a stupid kid vandalized a bunch of pages on the linuxtv wiki and > a sysop locked to database to undo the damage. > > I would have preferred to undo that damage by simply taking a look at > the users contribution page and using the handy-dandy undo function as a > mere wiki user. > > It would have deprived that individual the satifaction of gaining the > sysop's attention with his anti-social behavior, but thats probably a > policy decision that is not mine to make. The damage was done by a bot script and it affected as many pages as the edit rate limiter would allow it to do until I noticed it. If you search for "GRAWP'S MASSIVE" you'll see this is not limited to linuxtv.org. > Anyway .. Now, after about 24h the wiki is still locked. > Any reason for that? It is locked until I had time to take measures to prevent similar damage from happening again right away. I'm open to suggestions if someone has experience with this. Johannes -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-media" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
