If you look at the RecentChanges for OG London, you'll see it's filled with dozens of category and locale autocreations. Because I don't think anyone would be bored enough to do such a thing, I reckon it's a web robot of some kind that's followed lots of links to nonexistent categories and consequently brought them into existence.
I think this exposes a vulnerability in the mechanism; numerous of the new categories were erroneous.[0] I propose that autocreation be made a user choice; namely, something like,
The category you selected does not exist, but we can create it for you if you would like.
[Create Category]
with "Create Category" being a form submit button.
[0] Actually, it was quite useful as it exposed lots of pages that needed to be tidied, but I'm not sure that would rate as a "feature"!
----- Original Message ----- From: "Earle Martin" openguides@downlode.org To: openguides-dev@openguides.org Sent: 03 August 2003 00:41 Subject: [OpenGuides-Dev] Autocreation and web robots
If you look at the RecentChanges for OG London, you'll see it's filled with dozens of category and locale autocreations. Because I don't think anyone would be bored enough to do such a thing, I reckon it's a web robot of some kind that's followed lots of links to nonexistent categories and consequently brought them into existence.
Actually, I noticed the same thing. I would be inclined to suppress autocreates from the front page, but make them still appear on recent changes.
I think this exposes a vulnerability in the mechanism; numerous of the new categories were erroneous.[0] I propose that autocreation be made a user choice; namely, something like,
The category you selected does not exist, but we can create it for you if you would like. [Create Category]with "Create Category" being a form submit button.
I have raised a bug on RT to cover this RT #3132.
Ivor.
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