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Scientizzle destroys Wikipedia!!, ... single-handedly! |
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QUOTE(Alison @ Wed 16th January 2008, 3:51pm) I have to say, that was kinda awe-inspiring. Admin Scientizzle caused sheer mayhem and shut down Wikipedia for 90 minutes by deleting the Sandbox.... It was the longest 90 minutes of my entire, rather sad life. (IMG: smilys0b23ax56/default/laugh.gif) Ooh, not even Ed Poor could have topped that. Did it come back by itself or did it require Developer intervention? This post has been edited by Castle Rock:
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QUOTE(Castle Rock @ Wed 16th January 2008, 3:53pm) QUOTE(Alison @ Wed 16th January 2008, 3:51pm) I have to say, that was kinda awe-inspiring. Admin Scientizzle caused sheer mayhem and shut down Wikipedia for 90 minutes by deleting the Sandbox.... It was the longest 90 minutes of my entire, rather sad life. (IMG: smilys0b23ax56/default/laugh.gif) Ooh, not even Ed Poor could have topped that. Did it come back by itself or did it require Developer intervention? Brion had to get involved. Apparently, now there's a revisions cap of 5,000 entries on deleting files.
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Only a few hours before that, Ike9898's account was compromised, and the resulting mischief caused "the database servers to lock up while they caught up and the whole site went into read-only mode": QUOTE Special:Log&type=&user=Ike9898# 05:58, 16 January 2008 Ike9898 (Talk | contribs) protected Atheism ‎ (exploits [create=sysop]) # 05:54, 16 January 2008 Ike9898 (Talk | contribs) deleted "Atheism" ‎ (CSD A7: Article about subject that does not assert significance.) # 05:44, 16 January 2008 Ike9898 (Talk | contribs) unblocked Willy on wheels (Talk | contribs) ‎ (test) # 05:42, 16 January 2008 Ike9898 (Talk | contribs) unprotected Main Page ‎ (will reprotect in a minute)
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QUOTE(Alison @ Wed 16th January 2008, 11:51pm) I have to say, that was kinda awe-inspiring. Admin Scientizzle caused sheer mayhem and shut down Wikipedia for 90 minutes by deleting the Sandbox... It was the longest 90 minutes of my entire, rather sad life. (IMG: smilys0b23ax56/default/laugh.gif) I thought an admin called Laurence-something did it? And at one point they thought Something Awful forum members were involved.
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QUOTE(wikiwhistle @ Wed 16th January 2008, 5:11pm) QUOTE(Alison @ Wed 16th January 2008, 11:51pm) I have to say, that was kinda awe-inspiring. Admin Scientizzle caused sheer mayhem and shut down Wikipedia for 90 minutes by deleting the Sandbox.... It was the longest 90 minutes of my entire, rather sad life. (IMG: smilys0b23ax56/default/laugh.gif) I thought an admin called Laurence-something did it? And at one point they thought Something Awful forum members were involved. That was a different event. A sysop account got compromised, unblocked the mainpage and deleted the "atheism" article. Tarantino mentions it above.
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QUOTE(SirFozzie @ Wed 16th January 2008, 5:18pm) We all know the truth, Alison tried to blow up Wikipedia and almost succeeded..
and she would have gotten away with it if it wasn't for those meddling kids and their dog!
(IMG: smilys0b23ax56/default/ohmy.gif) ... Foz reaches over and tears off the rubber mask*gasp!!* "And all along it was .... Mr. Wales!!!" (IMG: smilys0b23ax56/default/laugh.gif)
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