Wikipedia talk:Wikipedia Signpost/2007-04-23/Robdurbar

Robdurbar's logs actually show him blocking Secretlondon and Raul654 before getting Lost and myself. – Riana ऋ 06:42, 24 April 2007 (UTC)
 * I don't think that's the biggest issue here :P ~ Giggy!  Talk (reply here) 06:47, 24 April 2007 (UTC)
 * Nah, just for the sake of accurate reporting :) – Riana ऋ 06:50, 24 April 2007 (UTC)
 * Yes he went for me first. I've not actually had a dispute with him unless a difference of opinion over chav and charver count. He was very into those articles.. Secretlondon 03:45, 25 April 2007 (UTC)

" Jesse Viviano made a novel suggestion" - please include a link to this novel suggestion and similar discussions in the future. WP:BTW...--Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus 07:00, 24 April 2007 (UTC)

Stewards at Wikimania
The thing about all stewards being at Wikimania in the Wiktionary case is wrong. Not all stewards were there (I know I wasn't ), I think "only" about 1/3 went. Anyways, the fact that there were no stewards available at the time was probably a lucky shot. And nowadays, there are more stewards than there were then, plus that the new tool ( !steward ) helps making stewards aware of any problems. At that time we may not have had 24/7 coverage, but I daresay we do now. (Also, stewards are Wikimedia geeks deluxe, we spend way too much time on Wikimedia projects. ) Jon Harald Søby 13:37, 24 April 2007 (UTC)

A strange Wiki-rampage..
Was this administrator's account hacked or something? What's going on? --Wassermann 05:29, 26 April 2007 (UTC)


 * According to the checkuser, no. However, that doesn't preclude the possibility that he accidentally left himself logged in on a public computer, and someone else took advantage of the situation. Sam Blacketer 08:13, 26 April 2007 (UTC)
 * In that case, it will be highly improbable that the person taking advantage shall target some of the users who were familiar with Robdurbar. --Bhadani (talk) 16:22, 26 April 2007 (UTC)

In-built system
The rampage was contained swiftly is remarkable and all involved to manage the position deserves applause of the community. However, we will have to think over an in-built system to avoid repetition of such a case in future though I am not able to think of a way to formulate any such system. Perhaps such an incidence has happened for the first time. and it is really shocking. --Bhadani (talk) 16:18, 26 April 2007 (UTC)

Continuing with other admins
On 7 April, the main page was deleted using the accounts of User:AndyZ, User:Eagle 101, User:Jiang, User:Conscious and User:Marine 69-71. It seems to be a case of hacked passwords --SE16 19:16, 7 May 2007 (UTC)


 * There's obviously going to be a big Signpost story about this. Sam Blacketer 19:51, 7 May 2007 (UTC) (E15)

sweet
Wow...


 * Sweet?! This dude went vandalising all over Wikipedia last month!  And more recently, something grotesque happened!  Chef Clover MyTalk 23:15, 8 May 2007 (UTC)


 * How did nobody see this coming? &quot;Nothing else matters&quot; 14:57, 20 September 2007 (UTC)

RfAs
And people muse about the "good ol times" when anyone and everyone could get admin powers after a few days. L3X1 (distant write)  12:59, 12 April 2017 (UTC)
 * , good ol' Wikipedia story. Enjoyer of World💬 22:24, 17 November 2020 (UTC)