Effeietsanders what about the local communities? If a local community
disagrees with a global ban how will we handle it?
On 9/9/07, Casey Brown <cbrown1023.ml(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Yup, that's what I was referring to. ;-)
On 9/9/07, effe iets anders <effeietsanders(a)gmail.com> wrote:
I can imagine some better defenses against spambots, such as
crosswiki-nuke
and crosswiki-blocks :) (i.e. a steward could block for *all* wikimedia
wiki's at the same time an IP) Requests have been made already, so if
someone with coding abilities could take a look at it, please :) See
http://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11069 and
http://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8707 .
Eia
2007/9/9, Casey Brown <cbrown1023.ml(a)gmail.com>om>:
Ah, I see what you mean now. :-)
On 9/8/07, White Cat <wikipedia.kawaii.neko(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Yes, I know. Thats the current process. I commented on it before
anyone
> > brought it up. :)
> >
> > - White Cat
> >
> > On 9/9/07, Casey Brown <cbrown1023.ml(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > I said nothing in my post about developers doing the blocking
> > > themselves...
> > >
> > > On 9/8/07, White Cat <wikipedia.kawaii.neko(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > Indeed. We are defenseless right now and I dislike it. Dev
blocks
> are
> > > not
> > > > a
> > > > solution, devs have far more important things to do and blocking
> open
> > > > proxies would come after "watching empty walls aimlessly"
on my
to
> do
> > > list
> > > > if I were a dev.
> > > >
> > > > - White Cat
> > > >
> > > > On 9/8/07, Casey Brown <cbrown1023.ml(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > > 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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> > > >
> > > This discussion is completely premature. Last I checked, the
'Open
> > > > proxies' page on meta was removed from its state of
> ''policy''. What
> > > > you are talking about is surely doable, but we do not have a
> consensus
> > > > on if to block OPs, let alone which types of proxies or what
type
> of
> > > > > block.
> > > > >
> > > > > Another solution to the problem you bring up would be
cross-wiki
> >
> > blocking by a certain user group like stewards. It would stop
any
> > > > vandal-script globally for a
short amount of time. (vandals
rarely
> > use
> > > > > the same proxy twice).
> > > > >
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