I've sent an email to the functionaries list. It should be pretty easy to put filters in place to stop this sort of thing. As an aside, I strongly suspect I know who the person is, but I'll leave it to CU and Functionaries to put something in place to deal with this sort of abuse. On Jun 8, 2012 2:39 PM, <[email protected]> wrote:
> Not difficult at all. > > On [[Template:NPG name]] > Vandalising IP: 188.28.135.246 rDNS: 188.28.135.246 is > 188.28.135.246.threembb.co.uk > Vandalism Timestamp: 12:44, 2 June 2012 (UTC). > > So the vandal either did this with a smartphone, or some other three > mobile 3G device (dongle, tablet, 3G-enabled laptop). > Checkuser will 'out' the browser ID, and that can be handed to > [email protected] as a complaint about the user in question. > > I'd be tempted to back it up with rough stats on how many people this > individual shocked/offended in the time that, and other, templates were > vandalised (for {{NPG name}}, about 2 minutes. > > > Brian McNeil > -- > Wikinews, Accredited Reporter. Personal: [email protected] > "Facts don't cease to be facts, but news ceases to be news." > > > -------- Original Message -------- > > Subject: Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Main page seen by library users - where is > > Wikipedia? > > From: HJ Mitchell <[email protected]> > > Date: Fri, June 08, 2012 2:18 pm > > To: UK Wikimedia mailing list <[email protected]> > > > > > > Well if you've got the patience, you could go through the recent > changes, isolate it to the template namespace, and look for recent reverts > and protections. But tracking it down the day after it's happened strikes > as a bit like locking the stable door after the horse has bolted. > > > > > > Harry > > > > > > ________________________________ > > From: Richard Symonds <[email protected]> > > To: UK Wikimedia mailing list <[email protected]> > > Sent: Friday, 8 June 2012, 13:59 > > Subject: Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Main page seen by library users - where is > Wikipedia? > > > > > > All I know is that it's from the 188. range, which is used by a few > people with a grudge against Wikipedia. I really need to know what template > was vandalised to be able to give the checkusers the info they need to > track it all down. > > > > Richard Symonds > > Wikimedia UK > > 0207 065 0992 > > Disclaimer viewable at > http://uk.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia:Email_disclaimer > > Visit http://www.wikimedia.org.uk/ and @wikimediauk > > > > > > > > On 8 June 2012 13:45, Deryck Chan <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > >On 8 June 2012 12:38, Andrew West <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > >On 7 June 2012 20:08, Andy Mabbett <[email protected]> wrote: > > >>> > > >> > > >> I > > wonder how many of those were accessing the site from public computers > > >>in libraries, and what the librarians thought about Wikipedia when > > >>library users notified them of the porn on the Elizabeth II page. > > >> > > >Get the IP (I gather it's an IP user who vandalised the template), > reverse WHOIS it, report the issue to ISP / library / school / wherever > that IP user belongs. > > > > > >Last year I had fun kicking up some fuss when an IP editor from Oxford > University vandalised an article about my Cambridge college ;) > > > > > >Deryck > > > > > >_______________________________________________ > > >Wikimedia UK mailing list > > >[email protected] > > >http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l > > >WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Wikimedia UK mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l > > WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org > <hr>_______________________________________________ > > Wikimedia UK mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l > > WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org > > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia UK mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l > WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org >
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