Hello all,

I was notified in IRC today, that the english wikipedia (enwp for short) is going to change their toolserver-ip-blocking-policy. Some bots were editing without login (I guess most time accidentally) in the past and enwp-admins have had trouble with that; anonymous bot-editing is and were against our toolserver-rules too. So they plan to softblock (that means: editing without login is not possible) our IPs in 2 weeks from now. So if you run a bot, please make sure that you login to edit and test your bot that it works with a softblocked ip. You may also test other tools, that edit the english wikipedia. Please notice also, that it is not allowed to run a bot on the web-servers.

The discussion of the policy-changing can be found at [1].

Sincerly, DaB.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Bot_policy#Proposal_to_softblock...