On Sat, Jun 6, 2009 at 9:02 AM, Platonides<[email protected]> wrote: > David Gerard wrote: >> Keeping well-meaning admins from putting Google web bugs in the >> JavaScript is a game of whack-a-mole. >> >> Are there any technical workarounds feasible? If not blocking the >> loading of external sites entirely (I understand hu:wp uses a web bug >> that isn't Google), perhaps at least listing the sites somewhere >> centrally viewable? >> >> - d. > > Make a filter of google analytics (plus all other known web bugs). > When it matches, make an admin look at that user contributions (you can > just log it and have the admin review it daily or make a complex mail > notification system). > Even if you blocked it, the admin can bypass any filter. A sysadmin > reviewing the code added cannot be fooled so easily. > > > Taking advantage of this thread. Take a look at > http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Search > Can those images be moved to a server under our control (WMF, > Toolserver...)? > > Potentially, those systems they could be retrieving the search queries > and ips of all visitors via the referer. > > Originally, some of those images were hosted by WMF-FR but was stopped > because it overloaded their server. They should be hosted like a standard image with a FUR and then inculded via a interface message, then the servers should cache them so load shouldn't cause a issue. (although it might be wiser to ask someone better at mediawiki/wikipedia about that)
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