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Wiki Vandal
Charles Matthews Wiki vandal alert! Vandal currently defacing SL. A person of minimal intelligence who delights in defacing or maliciously deleting Wiki pages. This wretched creature wishes to feel powerful and important, but lacks the ideas and patience to make original contributions to the discourse, and also lacks the courage even to try. He or she tries to compensate for these deficiences by attempting to spoil the work of others, underlining their pitifulness by not appearing to realise that the work can be easily retrieved and restored. ...not to mention that his or her IP address can be traced and blocked. It takes no courage or intelligence to deface an open public Wiki Wiki Web site. Nico: What kind of behaviour should people adopt when such defacement attempts appear?
Charles The FrontPage has been revived, and I expect the admins will block Mr. or Ms 193.0.96.15 shortly. The main thing is to use this page to flag the attack. Arno: If you are the first one after a defacement, then you can revive the page (you need to set "deshi" status as your wiki experience in UserPreferences). If you are a "deshi" then click on edit-page and you will see a link below the text-area called "Revive previously archived version" Click there and you should get the original page. If this doesn't work (too many versions saved meanwhile) then only librarians or admins can revive the page (through the info&history page). I blocked the IP address now (for 12 hours). Charles, librarians can block IP addresses as well. See the librarian and admin page. This is a copy of the living page "Wiki Vandal" at Sensei's Library. ![]() |