Talk:Countervandalism development

Overlap with Admin tools development
There seems to be a lot of overlap with this page and Admin tools development. Is it possible the two efforts could be consolidated? Legoktm (talk) 09:39, 16 March 2014 (UTC)
 * Possibly, although it looked like the focus of that page was more on WMF-like environments where there's a shared backend for a wiki farm, while this is more focused on tools for third party wikis. I do want to avoid reinventing the wheel wherever possible; it's always demoralizing to find out that, due to insufficient research, one's project unnecessarily duplicated someone else's. Leucosticte (talk) 09:45, 16 March 2014 (UTC)

PanicButton
MediaWiki core already provides this functionality which is however presumably rarely used/configured. The "siteadmin" permission allows to lock and unlock the wiki's database for write actions. This functionality may probably be enhanced to provide an interface like the one protecting pages and to allow selectable time spans. Easier access to this could perhaps be added via the AdminLinks extension. --&#91;&#91;kgh&#93;&#93; (talk) 15:54, 18 March 2014 (UTC)

RevertBatch
I think this is a good idea. So far the hardest part is to undo/revert the actions by bad meaning authors efficiently and fast once harm was done. Probably this idea could be merged with the BlockBatch extension and allow for either just blocking or blocking and reverting. An interesting enhancement to this could very well be to specify a minimum timestamp.--&#91;&#91;kgh&#93;&#93; (talk) 16:02, 18 March 2014 (UTC)

File spam
File spam is thankfully not that frequent, though it happens. Ways to efficiently nuke the uploaded and/or reuploaded files are currently not there. However, I think this is not a front burner thing to focus on. I do not think that image blacklisting is worth the effort. --&#91;&#91;kgh&#93;&#93; (talk) 16:08, 18 March 2014 (UTC)