On Sun, Nov 2, 2008 at 1:23 PM, Richard Fairhurst <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > is it > simply a matter of deleting all content from the page, or does that > leave it in the history for spiders to pick up? > On Sun, Nov 2, 2008 at 2:06 PM, Richard Fairhurst <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Tom Hughes wrote: > >> A wiki admin can delete it properly, and block the account. > > Hokay. I guess what I'm trying to ask is whether there's a procedure > (e.g. flagging spam on a wiki page, or category, which several people > can follow) which might reduce the inevitably OSM tendency for "the > way to get something fixed is to mail TomH". I'm trying to be > considerate. ;) >
Wiki admins can mar an whole page as invisible very easily, it's much harder to delete single revisions of a page. If you happen to be an admin you can read the handbook: http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/MediaWiki_Administrator's_Handbook/Page_Deletion -- /emj -- /emj _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
