Wikipedia talk:How to revert a page to an earlier version: What originally started off as a suggested guideline has sparked discussion (mainly on the mailing list [1][2][3]) about a possible introduction of a policy against more than three reverts, punishable by 24-hour bans. Further suggestions from Jimbo follow [4].
User:Bird: It seems that this user is attempting to remove large amounts of content contributed by himself in the past. See also User:David Newton/Bird Dispute and on the mailing list [5][6].
Emmss Vandalism (March 9-11): large scale spambot vandalism at ko:, fy:, gl:, gn:, ja:, ms: and sq:. Measures now taken at the squid server level to block POST commands coming from the proxies used by the spambot. Andre Engels, Angela, Dori, Fuzheado, Jeronim, JorgeGG, Kowey, Maximus_Rex handle most of the damage. Tim Starling assists by deputizing administrators on the spot for the smaller Wikipedias.
Downtime (March 10): Wikipedia experiences about 1 hour of downtime due to a database crash.
Various users and arbitrators wish to see "Mav v. 168" referred to the arbitration committee; Jimbo has so far not done this, and until the arbitration committee may accept cases without his referral, this cannot be considered.
Arbitrators formally refuse to hear Wik's request to have Darkelf banned (made February 14, 2004) as it is a political disupte and not suitable for arbitration.
WikiProjects
WikiProject Songs: A new table is created for use in articles about specific songs.
The developers prepare for the 1.2.0 release of Mediawiki
Bandwidth thieves are blocked from taking our images (+ related issues of fair use and lack of a way of getting the images). Worldhistory is unblocked
Proxies are blocked
New &action=purge feature
New squid server in Germany
Links caching has been turned off and the links table is being rebuilt
Changes to the links table are made as part of the new database schema, which should solve the issues that occur when renaming pages with a long edit history (won't be live for a few weeks)
The MIT paper (PDF) on Wikipedia and history flow will be presented at CHI 2004
