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(a)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.
Kind regards,
Gabriele
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