I agree Wayne, We should develop some guidelines applicable to everyone on how to deal with vandalism as well as unintentional editings done by newbies.
Nellie and I found this one: http://www.wikieducator.org/index.php?title=Wikieducator_tutorial/Basic_Text_Formatting/Summary_and_FAQs&oldid=373321 Cheers 2009/5/31 Wayne Mackintosh <[email protected]> > Hi Declan, > > Well spotted and thanks for stepping in a blocking these users :-). I've > gone in and reverted the pages to their original versions. > > WikiEducator has not had a major SPAM problem to date -- and we've been > able to manage to deal with the odd spammer rather well. > > In fact I went to the individual pages myself to block the users concerned > -- and saw that you've already done the honours. Thanks :-). I've also > checked the offenders contribution history and see that these were the only > pages affected. > > Given recent discussion on constituting work groups -- it may not be a bad > idea to get a work group to draft a policy on dealing with SPAM, covering > the process how it works, basis for deciding on the level of blocking etc. > > Thanks again Declan. > > Cheers > Wayne > > > > > > > 2009/6/1 Declan <[email protected]> > >> >> OK then, I blocked 4 user names. If any are in error,please let me >> know. I did not fix the sites; I'll leave that to the site authors. >> >> Cheers, >> >> Declan >> >> > > > -- > Wayne Mackintosh, Ph.D. > Director, > International Centre for Open Education, > Otago Polytechnic, New Zealand. > Founder and Community Council Member, Wikieducator, www.wikieducator.org > > > > -- Gladys Gahona Private Teacher (Math, Physics, Chemistry) Secondary & Tertiary grades. http://storytelling-cultures.ning.com http://www.wikieducator.org/User:Chela5808 http://www.wikieducator.org/EL4C25 Skype:chela5808 --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "WikiEducator" group. To visit wikieducator: http://www.wikieducator.org To visit the discussion forum: http://groups.google.com/group/wikieducator To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
