Unfortunately so do spambots. Especially on wikis with no admins present
this is a serious problems. Please do not involve controversial sites such
as
to this discussion. Thanks.
On 9/8/07, teun spaans <teun.spaans(a)gmail.com> wrote:
I think there are many countries in the world where people would edit
rather
through open proxies than directly through an easily traceble ip-address.
See
hrw.org and
amnesty.org
teun spaans
On 9/8/07, White Cat <wikipedia.kawaii.neko(a)gmail.com> wrote:
I think we really need to have some automation in dealing with these.
Granted there are notable exceptions on some wikis such as the Chinese
wikis, but for every other wiki there needs to be a more centralized
block
on open proxies.
How likely is an average person to edit a wiki from an open proxy? How
likely is a spam bot or some destructive vandal script to preform the
task.
I think a solution could be like the spam list - a centralized meta page
for
open proxy blocks.
- White Cat
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