Even the most diehard troll will give up fairly quickly when their vandalism gets erased by the combined effort of 30+ people.
Actually I think they both work - this page won't catch the "insidious" miscreants, the ones who edit only occasionally to try and promote a particlar viewpoint. My page is not realy useful for large-scale vandalism.
Agreed. --STG
OK - Taw, I agree that this page does not solve that problem. So what do we do then? - MMGB
Give short-term-IP-ban (like 30 minutes) rights to enough people, so that at least one of them is usually on wikipedia. Or rights of turning wikipedia into [War Mode]? for a short time (this will also work against distributed vandalism attack). During war mode all changes would be enqueued onto [War Mode/Proposed Changes Queue]? and could be accepted only by selected users. Of course this shouldn't be done unless somebody really attacks us with a perl script. Too much paranoia isn't really good. --Taw
I disagree - the purpose of this page is to catch everyone's attention. Hence it belongs on Recent Changes (where we spend a lot more time than on Meta), and needs the ALL CAPS, to stand out. - MMGB
You're missing the point, C. The page isn't commentary, it's a utility to bring attention to a sustained vandalism attack. The ALL CAPS TITLE fits perfectly with this purpose, and if I could, I'd make the title red too. ;-) --STG
Sounds excellent - who's got the coding chops to pull it off? (BTW this discussion about the Short-term ban facility SHOULD be moved to Meta) - MMGB