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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