On Nov 25, 2012, at 9:09 AM, John Ralls <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Nov 25, 2012, at 5:50 AM, Christian Stimming <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> Am Samstag, 24. November 2012, 23:32:55 schrieb John Ralls: >>> It would be >>> nice to have a "nuke" function that does both at once. >> >> Yes, that would be nice, but apparently this doesn't exist. > > ISTR that wikimedia is scriptable, but I'll have to do some research. >
To follow up, yes, Wikimedia is scriptable [1], but it isn't easy. They're redoing their extension code to use Lua in the hope of making it easier. That said, there are already some mass-delete extensions [2], in particular Nuke [3] which allows mass-deleting spam pages. I don't immediately see any blocking in it, but it illustrates what can be done. As an aside, Gramps [4] has a setup that requires one to solve a simple arithmetic problem when committing an edit with external links. I don't know if that would be effective in discouraging the sort of spam pages I deleted yesterday -- which looked like they were created by live humans -- but it's worth considering. Regards, John Ralls [1] http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Extensions [2] http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Combating_spam [3] http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Nuke [4] http://www.gramps-project.org _______________________________________________ gnucash-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel
