On 29/02/2008, Christiano Moreschi moreschiwikiman@hotmail.co.uk wrote:
One relatively brief day of adminning enwiki and I find myself blocking the sockpuppets of no fewer than three separate returning banned users. Hkelkar, Ararat arev, and BryanFromPalatine, if anyone's interested. Is this a normal experience for my fellow admins?
Yes.
And do we do enough to keep banned users off Wikipedia? Should we chase them up in real life a little more? After all, I believe we do know who at least two out of the above three are. Wikipedia is hardly sinking under a deluge of banned users, but a little more proactiveness would be nice on this front.
Notifying ISPs or universities or whatever has tended to be something done only in extreme cases. Considering the (how do I put this) unstoppable robotic enthusiasm some of our admins put in, I'd consider it unsafe as a general practice.
Is protecting articles from a specific user or IP range technically possible?
Not as yet. Want to write the code?
- d.