Its disabled for very good reason "If you enable this, every editor's IP address will be scanned for open HTTP proxies." Good luck getting someone to enable it. - Chris
On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 1:36 PM, George Herbert george.herbert@gmail.comwrote:
On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 8:27 PM, Christopher Grant < chrisgrantmail@gmail.com
wrote:
You mean something similar to http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:$wgBlockOpenProxies ? -
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Bots/Requests_for_approval/ProcseeBot...
like the best solution to the proxy part atm. It would be good if we could get it to run with global blocks.
- Chris
On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 1:06 PM, George Herbert <
george.herbert@gmail.com
wrote:
On Sun, Jan 18, 2009 at 6:36 PM, Christopher Grant < chrisgrantmail@gmail.com
wrote:
We have bots that do that, grawp still gets through(part of the
reason
is
that these proxies need to be blocked globally or else grawp can
still
abuse SUL and TOR to create accounts and make the required 10 edits before
he
has
to find an unblocked proxy on enwiki).
- Chris
On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 11:25 AM, K. Peachey <p858snake@yahoo.com.au
wrote:
can continue to use unblocked proxies until we block them all. ( Blocking *all* proxies is nigh on impossible because computers get comprimised daily... So new "open proxies" are created daily.)
Maybe it would if we could hook someone like http://www.1freeproxy.com/feed/atom/ (rss feed for just proxies)
in
so that they are automatically blocked, which i believe is
Wikipedia's
policy anyway.
Perhaps we could add a front-end proxy check to all connections from previously unknown IPs.
If the account isn't on the known proxy users exemption list, then zap
the
IP...
Wonders (and poorly-known features) will never cease.
Anyone run with that on and got good CPU / net load data on it?
-- -george william herbert george.herbert@gmail.com _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l