On May 3, 2022, at 8:25 AM, Peter Southwood <peter.southwood@telkomsa.net> wrote:

And who will do all this tedious work? Cheers, Peter

 

From: gbfv@tiscali.it [mailto:gbfv@tiscali.it] 
Sent: 01 May 2022 20:01
To: wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org
Subject: [Wikimedia-l] Open proxies and IP blocking

 

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 

 

Virus-free. www.avg.com

 

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