[OSM-talk] Spam spam spam spam
Erik Johansson
erjohan at gmail.com
Sun Nov 2 15:43:44 GMT 2008
On Sun, Nov 2, 2008 at 1:23 PM, Richard Fairhurst <richard at systemed.net> wrote:
> is it
> simply a matter of deleting all content from the page, or does that
> leave it in the history for spiders to pick up?
>
On Sun, Nov 2, 2008 at 2:06 PM, Richard Fairhurst <richard at systemed.net> wrote:
> Tom Hughes wrote:
>
>> A wiki admin can delete it properly, and block the account.
>
> Hokay. I guess what I'm trying to ask is whether there's a procedure
> (e.g. flagging spam on a wiki page, or category, which several people
> can follow) which might reduce the inevitably OSM tendency for "the
> way to get something fixed is to mail TomH". I'm trying to be
> considerate. ;)
>
Wiki admins can mar an whole page as invisible very easily, it's much
harder to delete single revisions of a page. If you happen to be an
admin you can read the handbook:
http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/MediaWiki_Administrator's_Handbook/Page_Deletion
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