> But instead of increased patrolling and speedy deletions, this > could be implemented in the Mediawiki software. If a user (logged > in or IP address) tries to create a new page, their recent > contribution history could be checked, and if any of their five > most recently created articles (except redirects) are shorter > than, say, 300 bytes, they would simply be unable to create > another article. This would be a very soft kind of blocking (as > soon as you have improved your existing article, you can start the > next one), each case being completely an affair between the user > and the software, not involving opinions of individual admins. > > Such an extension (is there an "article creation hook"?) could be > fully parameterized, so each community could decide where to set > the limits (5 recently created articles, 300 bytes), and what > message to show to the user who violates these limits. > > Has this been suggested before? Has it been implemented? Would > it be a really bad idea to suggest this?
I can't see any reason why it couldn't be implemented (I don't know how easy it would be). Before anyone actually spends time coding it, though, is there a consensus on the Swedish Wikipedia to use such a system or is it just your idea? If it's the latter, then you should probably establish a consensus first (since I'm not sure other projects would use the extension, it's not really worth writing if you aren't going to use it). _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
