Ryan, > > Ryan, when i criticized the javascript implementation, i did not intend to > > be rude. I see now there might be a lot more considerations besides > > shocking visitors and editors, and there seem to have been not so much time > > too. Maybe i underestimated the task. > > > > I am impressed that you tried to process input from 1700 participants. This > > effort should not go to waste.... I wonder, if this first step towards > > self-defense will be the last. You also mentioned lack of time and i > > believe that's always the situation. So, will there be any further > > evaluation of all this effort so far, of the decision process and its > > supervision, and the technical options for actual taking action, and then > > maybe deriving a first provisional guidelines ? > > > > Yep, that's a good idea. We have a log of what we've been doing, and > we have a good amount of code written now as well. It's a good first > step in documenting how to do something like this in the future.
I think it could be collaborative work, but need a maintainer. A question of time i guess. Is there anyone in the position of doing it ? > > I do not imagine a catalog of predefined actions as that could turn out to > > be too predictable, but rather a catalog of possible goals and methods to > > achieve them, and possible technical implementations. But first before all, > > a guidance about the decision process, a supervision HowTo. I think that's > > the most difficult part. > > > > I think quite of bit of this can be predefined. But what else should that be, besides take-down and alert banners ? I believe you first need to define the goals, for example, is it ok even to 'hurt' search engines and why (not). More generally, what's at risk and how much damage might self-defense cause. It is more like philosophy, not rules. > > Please understand me right. I don't want to urge. It is only a question, > > from a random outsider, and if you think it was useless, just skip it. > It isn't useless. I'm hoping we don't have to black the site out > again, but we should be more prepared for this kind of situation in > the future. Yes that was my idea too. Thanks for the answer. _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
