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Re:Wikichan

Wikichan got cleared from my bookmarks when my computer crashed a while ago... I suppose I didn't go back because it seemed like it was running smoothly, and there wasn't much more for me to do after I cleaned out most of uncategorized pages. I'm more than willing to help now, though.

I have a few questions first: Do you have just administrator powers, or do you also have Bureaucrat or Staff powers (i.e.: disabling anon edits, changing user rights, doing checkusers, etc)? What is the active user to admin ratio?

If you do have b'crat powers, you might want to start out by preventing image uploads for a few weeks, and making one or two more people administrators. The image problems should stop, since normal users would have no control over the situation. It seems a little draconian, but you sound like the vandalism situation is a desperate one, so desperate measures can be taken.

Adding a couple of new administrators would mean more vigilant reverts and bannings, which is always a good thing. If you find the vandalism still getting out of control, I'm pretty sure there's an option to semi-protect all pages, forcing vandals to wait a week before they can get their business done. We are dealing with people who have nothing better to do with their lives than vandalizing wikis, so our greatest weapon against them is to make them bored.

Since they have no lives, they will know a lot of proxies. Contact Hinoa on his talk page, he can help you too by giving you a large list of open proxies to eliminate. To my knowledge, he's blocked several hundred, if not thousand, from access on this site, and can be a great help to you. -- T​K​F​​U​U​U​U​U​U​U​U​U​U​U​U​U​U​U​U​U​U​U​U​UU​U​U​U​U​U​U​U​U​U​U​U​U​U​U​U​U​U​U​U​U​CK 21:56, 21 March 2008 (UTC)

Batten down the hatches! Man the walls! Lock the gates! Make ready the archers! To wikiwar, to wikiwar! (May I suggest changing your ban reasons to "get a life/hobby/job/friend?") Good luck. - P.M., WotM, & GUN, Sir Led Balloon (Tick Tock) (Contribs) 22:00, Mar 21

One last thing: Set up a semi-protected Ban Patrol page like the one we have here on Uncyclopedia. It makes vandalism organization much nicer. -- T​K​F​​U​U​U​U​U​U​U​U​U​U​U​U​U​U​U​U​U​U​U​U​UU​U​U​U​U​U​U​U​U​U​U​U​U​U​U​U​U​U​U​U​U​CK 22:13, 21 March 2008 (UTC)

Rapid rollback could be added into userpage .js scripts. I know that's built into the wiki, but I'm not sure if it works (I think I tried importing a script from Uncyclopedia once but it didn't work... it's worth a try, though.)

WikiSysop needs to be contacted ASAP, and you need to be made a b'crat. B'crats are the only guys that can change user rights, so you'll need to get in touch with him before you can elevate some other users.

No semi-protect... damn. You could try asking Spang or Algorithm with some help on editing the wiki skeleton itself, those two guys are code wiz kids and might be able to add a few things. I trust Wikichan uses Mediawiki, right? -- T​K​F​​U​U​U​U​U​U​U​U​U​U​U​U​U​U​U​U​U​U​U​U​UU​U​U​U​U​U​U​U​U​U​U​U​U​U​U​U​U​U​U​U​U​CK 22:28, 21 March 2008 (UTC)

Another, though much more tiresome way to add semi-protect to all pages, is to do it to each page individually. I'm going on the assumption you mean you can't automatically set this for all pages, but you can still semi-protect each page individually. It's effective, but hellishly boring. The simplest way this could be done is with the addition of the aforementioned bot. -- T​K​F​​U​U​U​U​U​U​U​U​U​U​U​U​U​U​U​U​U​U​U​U​UU​U​U​U​U​U​U​U​U​U​U​U​U​U​U​U​U​U​U​U​U​CK 22:38, 21 March 2008 (UTC)