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".
On 26 July 2015 at 10:26, Mathieu Stumpf psychoslave@culture-libre.org wrote:
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.
Because posters from hosting ranges are usually using open proxies running on said host. Though not always, of course.
- d.
Try clearing your open proxies and request an unblock. You can direct Nmap at your own ip to check your servers' status. I know this is hard and complicated, but that is why there is a blanket policy blocking sites with open proxies; they can be exploited at any time by multiple users.
Fred
On Sun, 26 Jul 2015 10:45:54 +0100 David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com wrote:
On 26 July 2015 at 10:26, Mathieu Stumpf psychoslave@culture-libre.org wrote:
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.
Because posters from hosting ranges are usually using open proxies running on said host. Though not always, of course.
- d.
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On Sun, Jul 26, 2015 at 5:26 AM, Mathieu Stumpf psychoslave@culture-libre.org wrote:
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?
This isn't based on a filter, as far as I know. An administrator made the decision to block the IP address range you edit from. (It would be an entry with the {{webhostblock}} reason on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BlockList?wpTarget=&wpOptions%5B%5... )
Please respond to this message with all relevant links to previous material that you know as related to this topic.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Webhostblock https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Open_proxies
Also, please feel free to give your opinions, advises and so on on this topic.
My advice is to follow the instructions on the template to either get the range unblocked or get an IP block exemption for your account.
Can anyone recommend an add-on to integrate Media-Wiki (logins) with Joomla, more specifically, Community Builder?
I want to add MediaWiki to enhance our existing site, but I prefer a single sign on and user database.
TIA
On Jul 26, 2015, at 6:16 AM, Benjamin Lees emufarmers@gmail.com wrote:
On Sun, Jul 26, 2015 at 5:26 AM, Mathieu Stumpf psychoslave@culture-libre.org wrote:
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?
This isn't based on a filter, as far as I know. An administrator made the decision to block the IP address range you edit from. (It would be an entry with the {{webhostblock}} reason on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BlockList?wpTarget=&wpOptions%5B%5... )
Please respond to this message with all relevant links to previous material that you know as related to this topic.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Webhostblock https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Open_proxies
Also, please feel free to give your opinions, advises and so on on this topic.
My advice is to follow the instructions on the template to either get the range unblocked or get an IP block exemption for your account.
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With the question answered, this discussion is off-topic for this mailing list, considering it is English Wikipedia policy and not anything sysadmin or MediaWiki-technical related.
I recommend taking any follow-up questions on wiki or to IRC.
-- Tyler Romeo https://parent5446.nyc 0x405D34A7C86B42DF
On July 26, 2015 at 06:16:59, Benjamin Lees (emufarmers@gmail.com) wrote:
On Sun, Jul 26, 2015 at 5:26 AM, Mathieu Stumpf psychoslave@culture-libre.org wrote:
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?
This isn't based on a filter, as far as I know. An administrator made the decision to block the IP address range you edit from. (It would be an entry with the {{webhostblock}} reason on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BlockList?wpTarget=&wpOptions%5B%5... )
Please respond to this message with all relevant links to previous material that you know as related to this topic.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Webhostblock https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Open_proxies
Also, please feel free to give your opinions, advises and so on on this topic.
My advice is to follow the instructions on the template to either get the range unblocked or get an IP block exemption for your account.
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Can anyone recommend an add-on to integrate Media-Wiki (logins) with Joomla, more specifically, Community Builder?
I want to add MediaWiki to enhance our existing site, but I prefer a single sign on and user database.
TIA
You can have both authenticate to the same ldap instance to have synchronized logins. Or synchronize the password hashes and extend MediaWiki's password class to use the Joomla format.
But if you want true SSO, you'll need to have Joomla provide identities or setup Joomla to consume MediaWiki's OAuth identities (which is probably going to be more work). If Joomla can expose (the now deprecated) OpenID 2.0 identities, the OpenID extension can be setup to consume it. If it exposed OpenID Connect, then you can probably modify the GoogleLogin extension to point to Joomla.
So it shouldn't be too hard, but I'm not aware of an existing solution for it.
On Mon, Jul 27, 2015 at 10:51 AM, Brook Powers lwpowers@gmail.com wrote:
Can anyone recommend an add-on to integrate Media-Wiki (logins) with Joomla, more specifically, Community Builder?
I want to add MediaWiki to enhance our existing site, but I prefer a single sign on and user database.
TIA
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Sorry for the duplicate posts. I've been having one hell of a time subscribing to the mailing list, and then getting my posts to show up.
Any thoughts on something fairly turnkey, such as;
http://www.haroldprins.nl/index.php/mediawiki-bridge or http://www.bestofjoomla.com/component/option,com_mtree/task,viewlink/link_id...
On Mon, Jul 27, 2015 at 2:30 PM, Chris Steipp csteipp@wikimedia.org wrote:
You can have both authenticate to the same ldap instance to have synchronized logins. Or synchronize the password hashes and extend MediaWiki's password class to use the Joomla format.
But if you want true SSO, you'll need to have Joomla provide identities or setup Joomla to consume MediaWiki's OAuth identities (which is probably going to be more work). If Joomla can expose (the now deprecated) OpenID 2.0 identities, the OpenID extension can be setup to consume it. If it exposed OpenID Connect, then you can probably modify the GoogleLogin extension to point to Joomla.
So it shouldn't be too hard, but I'm not aware of an existing solution for it.
On Mon, Jul 27, 2015 at 10:51 AM, Brook Powers lwpowers@gmail.com wrote:
Can anyone recommend an add-on to integrate Media-Wiki (logins) with Joomla, more specifically, Community Builder?
I want to add MediaWiki to enhance our existing site, but I prefer a single sign on and user database.
TIA
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On Wed, Jul 29, 2015 at 11:17 AM, Brook Powers lwpowers@gmail.com wrote:
Sorry for the duplicate posts. I've been having one hell of a time subscribing to the mailing list, and then getting my posts to show up.
Any thoughts on something fairly turnkey, such as;
http://www.haroldprins.nl/index.php/mediawiki-bridge or
http://www.bestofjoomla.com/component/option,com_mtree/task,viewlink/link_id...
I haven't personally used either of those, but possibly someone else on the list has?
On Mon, Jul 27, 2015 at 2:30 PM, Chris Steipp csteipp@wikimedia.org wrote:
You can have both authenticate to the same ldap instance to have synchronized logins. Or synchronize the password hashes and extend MediaWiki's password class to use the Joomla format.
But if you want true SSO, you'll need to have Joomla provide identities
or
setup Joomla to consume MediaWiki's OAuth identities (which is probably going to be more work). If Joomla can expose (the now deprecated) OpenID 2.0 identities, the OpenID extension can be setup to consume it. If it exposed OpenID Connect, then you can probably modify the GoogleLogin extension to point to Joomla.
So it shouldn't be too hard, but I'm not aware of an existing solution
for
it.
On Mon, Jul 27, 2015 at 10:51 AM, Brook Powers lwpowers@gmail.com
wrote:
Can anyone recommend an add-on to integrate Media-Wiki (logins) with Joomla, more specifically, Community Builder?
I want to add MediaWiki to enhance our existing site, but I prefer a single sign on and user database.
TIA
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