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Wikipedia's defenses may hold strong for now, however a Wiki-Invasion consisting of tens, hundreds, thousands, or even more vandals may strike the site and wreak considerable havoc, especially if hackers hack into registered Wikipedia accounts with rights. These Wiki-Invaders will destroy anything in their sight and turn Wikipedia into an internet forum, an alt-right misinformation machine, or even a fake news broadcast. This will pose a great challenge to the community, as the reliability of Wikipedia will be destroyed forever and the site will be shattered, maybe not even fixed for a long time. As thus, I propose many prevention projects:
- Make all pages under pending changes protection.[1]
- Protect all important pages to be extended confirmed-protected.
- Implement an advanced AI to autodetect vandalism with the right to block, warn, and revert users and their edits.
- Create a Semi-Administrator user right that is requested and make all important pages protected to them.
- Make page creation (excluding their own user page and user talk pages) exclusive to those Semi-Administrators or above.
- Reduce the amount of warnings for newcomers, preferably from the five currently used to three or even two.
- Rangeblock the entire world, or a specific area where vandalism is the most problematic.
- Block all VPN IP addresses and do not let users edit through them. The IP block exempt's backlog may get a little crowded, but it will not be an enormous issue that cripples the site.
- Monitor far-right coordination blogs like /pol/ and other sites which can predict a future, coordinated attack.