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
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> > -------- 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
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> >
> > 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
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