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Ashley has made me admin; I've spent the last 1.5 hours deleting all the vandalism and indef blocking the accounts. I have Recent Changes in my RSS reader, so hopefully in the future there will be no greater than 24 hours delay before vandalism is dealt with. A MW upgrade will also help (eg. currently checkuser* seems to be unavailable).
Excellent! Putting aside what I said earlier about protection, which doesn't really work well with a single active admin, it may still be worth putting some protection in place to avoid a non-bot account maliciously sticking something like the goatse.cx pic on the home page of Haskell.org. The options I know of for doing this are the Patrolled Edits feature and the FlaggedRevs extension. Unfortunately, I don't think either of these can be applied only to a limited set of pages because of the MediaWiki team's asinine insistence that they'll never support per-page authorization mechanism properly. -md