Forum:TBW Defense Discussion - ADMINS READ!

Greetings, fellow staff members. I have called this meeting in order to discuss and remedy a severe problem.

This.

Apparently, yesterday, The BIONICLE Wiki came under one of the most severe vandal attacks in its long history. I know little of the details, as I was off-line at the time, but I do know that our defenses were... lacking. The Toa Team was out of town, as was the Matoran Guard, and only two ordinary Matoran were there to try to stem the flood of destruction.

This is not good, comrades. We need to make sure that this doesn't happen in the future, and so I have a few suggestions:

Firstly, and most obviously, we need more active administrators. Unfortunately, none of the current rollbackers are really ready to be promoted, so we'll have to do the next best thing: obtain more rollbackers. I suggest Blahmarrow, and possibly also Starscream7.

Secondly, I thought we might consider banning IP editing, like HeroPedia has done. This would create a small obstacle to would-be vandals, and since most of the IP edits are vandalism anyway, this shouldn't be a problem. This is, however, open to discussion.

These are my suggestions, but mostly we just need to get together and think. Brainstorm, comrades.

Toa  Roden   00:09, November 22, 2011 (UTC)

Blahmarrow's View
Rollbackers- If anything, Starscream deserves the spot just as much as I. He just couldn't stay unfortunatly.

Secondly- what is a rollbacker? Someone who does backward rolls?

Banning IPs: this was with accounts as well, this was a planned attack from somebody.

We could make every loyal member an admin. Make attacks much easier to prevent when we are tackled.Blahmarrow 00:23, November 22, 2011 (UTC)

SS7's View

 * P I'm a Matoran. But let's get to business:

I wanted to be a Rollbacker once ... but I do not know if I'm active enough. I took myself out of the vote because everyone was disagreeing. If Toa Roden asks, though, I can attempt to check in a day. Most of my only major appearences would be if there's vandalism or definitely if there's another attack.

@Blahmarrow: It's someone who's specifically tasked with "rollbacking" spam edits. Also, not everyone should be an Admin - at least, not all the active ones. Even I don't want to be an Admin because it's too much of a position for me on here. This is a canon Wiki, and I usually do better on fanon ones. But still, if anyone would like, a Rollbacker position would be the most.

To conclude, I think that we certainly should block the IP edits from the anons. Sometimes, I just look at one and think that they're flat-out suspicious-looking.

I will begin to open a vote, and see what cleaning we need to do of our staff and what additions need to be made. Sound fair?

Lord  SS7  wishes you  Happy Holidays!  01:31, November 22, 2011 (UTC)