As for blocking IP's automatically. This is another good method which I also use.

http://danielwebb.us/software/bot-trap/

You hide a small "invisible" image with a link which people won't see but bots do. Descent bots won't follow that link since you told them in robot.txt not to do so. Spammer bots will. Then they are trapped.

Their IP is automatically added to .htaccess

At 06:29 PM 5/24/2013 Friday -0400, you wrote:

We have two issues here, Blocking said IPs in a reliable simple method. * Thought would be something like torblock that just downloads the list on a daily/weekly/whatever schedule * can provide the blocked users information on why they are blocked and appeal process for valid users (ipblockexempt) Two: A method for reporting, confirming and listing said sources. * The easiest method that I know of would be a category based system with a bot/script that compiles a complete listing of said pages in the category on a regular basis. * Using a category system enables a more fulidic process, reduces edit conflicts and provides several other options. _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list MediaWiki-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l

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