Gbfv, this would be good in theory except it's not scalable, and furthermore the English Wikipedia community has not been a fan of pending changes as implemented by https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:FlaggedRevs .
The thing with open proxy blocks in general is that many are made in direct response to abuse, particularly global blocks. So it would not help much even if we did have the appetite and will to relax the no open proxies policy.
On Sun, May 1, 2022 at 5:37 PM gbfv@tiscali.it wrote:
Another somewhat obvious solution: instead, or before, of blocking, make the edits coming from one of the (too) dangerous IPs go through a reviewal process before getting published; hopefully a very quick one. In theory this would be against the original Wikipedia ideas, but I saw that it's something already practiced in some cases, and anyway blocking seems enormously worse than requiring a review before publication.
By the way, I now realized that the current Wikipedia is already very different than what I believed, and it works just because it does *not* really allow anyone to make edits. Before deciding where to go from here I'd suggest you to reflect on what's worse: to forbid anonymity or require reviews; I believe most normal people are more interested in privacy than immediate publication of edits.
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