2009/1/20 Platonides <[email protected]>:
> What about:
> -The bot detects a to-be-reverted edit
> -It is noticed to a irc channel
> -People at irc can check and revert it at the moment, or send the bot a
> command to unqueue it.
> -After an hour, the bot reverts it if there weren't subsequent edits.
Sounds good to me. We will have to establish a user base in that
channel, however.
> FYI, bots can and do place messages on talk pages, so in that case it
> could give 'Please don't blank pages. If you wish to nominate for
> deleteion, put {{delete|reason}} For help go to [[Help desk]]'
Yes, but they can't restore the info they deleted. That's my concern.
Regards,
ChrisiPK
2009/1/20 Platonides <[email protected]>:
> ChrisiPK wrote:
>> 2009/1/20 Howard Cheng <[email protected]>:
>>> I don't see why. The faster the better IMHO.
>>
>> Just in case an edit is not vandalism or at least not entirely. A new
>> user wanting to add a comment and accidentally blanking the page
>> should of course be reverted, but the comment should also be
>> implemented in the page. The bot couldn't do that, it would just
>> revert the edit.
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> ChrisiPK
>
> What about:
> -The bot detects a to-be-reverted edit
> -It is noticed to a irc channel
> -People at irc can check and revert it at the moment, or send the bot a
> command to unqueue it.
> -After an hour, the bot reverts it if there weren't subsequent edits.
>
> FYI, bots can and do place messages on talk pages, so in that case it
> could give 'Please don't blank pages. If you wish to nominate for
> deleteion, put {{delete|reason}} For help go to [[Help desk]]'
>
>
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