Forum:Wiki-Wide Locking Feature

I can't recall the exact number of times those fellas from "GNNA" or whatever came onto our Wiki in groups and made spam page after spam page in an obvious effort to both disrupt steady activity around the Wiki and promote themselves (by my count, three times? Four?) Some of them even vandalized some of our articles in the past in order to spread their message. However, GNNA's members are far from the only people that have spammed/vandalized the Wiki en masse. I'm beginning to think that we should adopt the Wiki-lock feature, which will allow us to lock all the Wiki's pages in a single action for a set period of time in case of an emergency. Granted, the latest spam attack that we just experienced earlier today wasn't anything we couldn't handle, but I'm starting to get annoyed having to clean up large amounts of messes that these people leave for me and other Administrators to clean up, when our only deterrent is hoping for them to get bored enough to stop causing trouble. There's also the possibility that even larger, more organized attacks may occur in the future, which so many Trolls could be a part of that any active Admins who're around at the time might not be able to keep up with them, allowing these people to cause more damage faster than we can fix.

The Wiki-wide locking feature is a tool I've seen in use with M.E., when they've had some vandal/spam attacks of their own in the past, so I know the tool exists. And it works. So, I would like to see if anyone else agrees that we should impliment such a tool for future use. However, I would like to stress again that, while I think this could be a very useful tool, we should use it only in emergencies, because this feature locks all pages on the Wiki from being edited by non-Administrative staff. This tool should only be used if a situation occurs on the Wiki that becomes too much for any present Administrators to handle. So any thoughts? 23:54, September 11, 2012 (UTC)