On Mon, Dec 8, 2008 at 9:32 AM, Tim Starling
<tstarling(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
The poor woman clearly didn't know the
difference between a URL and a web
page. Most likely the same can be said about the IWF staff member who
listed those two pages.
The colatteral damage will mostly go away if they block the image
itself instead of the text.
Perhaps we should send the the ~3 URLs they need for the images, and
tell them that if they want the image to stay blocked they should
block those. Then change the knams rr IP for text, and refuse to
respond to
en.wikipedia.org DNS requests from the proxy boxes, if we
can.
, that would fix the vandalism issue. Failing that, I'd
like to see if we can get the ISPs to send XFF headers. The vandalism
issue was mostly ignored in the news reports, and mainly affects Wikipedia
editors and administrators rather than the general public.
-- Tim Starling