https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16860
--- Comment #10 from Gurch <[email protected]> 2010-04-11 10:38:52 UTC --- (In reply to comment #9) > (In reply to comment #8) > > Stewards were chosen though a touch election process because these things > > are > > important, not to sit and let a bot do them. > > The bot doesn't act on its own, it simply automates the tedious steps when > prompted by its operator. Consider the normal flow to lock and hide an > account, > and review its local edits: > 1. Copy vandal username from RC feed. > 2. Open or move focus to browser. > 3. Navigate to Special:CentralAuth. > 4. Set focus in name textbox. > 5. Paste vandal username. > 6. Press 'Enter'. > 7. Wait for page to load. > 8. Scroll down page. > 9. Click "Account is locked from editing". > 10. Click "Account is hidden from public lists". > 11. Click "Other reason" menu. > 12. Click "crosswiki abuse" option. > 13. Click the "Set status" button. > 14. CTRL + Click the edit link for every local account that has edits. > 15. For each account, make sure their edits have been reverted and page > creations deleted. > The vandal has created five new accounts in the time it took you to do this. > Set focus to RC feed, start over from step 1, and work faster next time! Apologies, I didn't realise global blocking was so badly integrated. Guess that's a valid use case (although a UI-based user script could probably do the same thing). > Compare this to a semi-automated flow: > 1. Copy vandal username. > 2. Type "!stabhide " and CTRL + V to paste vandal username. > 3. Press 'Enter'. > You're done. The vandal probably hasn't even had time to edit yet, and if he > has the bot will notify you if he has unreverted edits on any wiki. Another > bot > will notify #wikimedia-stewards that you locked and hid an account. 1a. accidentially get "Jimbo Wales" on your clipboard somehow :) -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug. _______________________________________________ Wikibugs-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikibugs-l
