Hello,
So trying to make a contribution - while logged - English Wikipedia
instance of Mediawiki returned a ban statut for the current IP. The reason :
The IP address that you are currently using has been blocked because
it is believed to be a web host provider. To prevent abuse, web
hosts may be blocked from editing Wikipedia.
While do occasionally launch a web service, this is my home IP where I
currently don't run permanently such a service. So a first technical
concern is, does this filter does have a good pattern recognition
matching the goal which is aimed?
Now a more policy concern is, why would you ban an IP when it do indeed
make webhosting? It sounds like a "shoot first at anything that would
remotely look like a dirty face criminal, and then if it survive let it
try to bring proofs that it's not guilty" policy.
Banning IP which are known for vandalism is understandable. Banning IP
on loose pattern recognition is an other topic. It's all the more
regrettable when being logged with an account that in ten years as never
been used to practice any vandalism.
Please respond to this message with all relevant links to previous
material that you know as related to this topic. Also, please feel free
to give your opinions, advises and so on on this topic.
Banned-ly[1],
mathieu
[1] Please let me know if you are aware of any already accepted adverb
derived from "ban".