Suggestions to resolve open proxies and IP block issues.
- Building bots/ tools or features, when a user logs in from an open proxy. A notification pops up stating “ You have login from an open proxy. Kindly click on this link to enter your username,password and IP address. - If Username is verified. Access is granted to edit content. - If username is not verified. Kindly state “ There’s no username as such. Access denied. - After editing, thanks for your contribution. Your edit will be reviewed within (this duration) before its published. - Username must match with user login entered. - After reviewing, if there’s no form of vandalism. User receives a notification “edit from IP address is published”. If there’s a form of vandalism user receives a notification message “ edit from IP address contains vandalism content. Therefore user is blocked”.
Kindly note: Please this just an idea that came in mind. If there are stewards here who will like to go through this and share the feedback with me I will Ben grateful. On Tue, Apr 26, 2022 at 4:08 PM Bence Damokos bdamokos@gmail.com wrote:
Thanks Mario - indeed it seems to be a bit random, maybe there was an update recently- on Hungarian Wikipedia as an anon I today see an edit button but then it tells me I am blocked (it doesn't give any real explanations, but at least the link to contact the stewards goes directly to the contact form) , on English Wikipedia when logged out I get the edit button and block message, whereas if I am logged in I get a locked pencil edit button and a nightmare of a block message: it is a wall of text that asks me to put something on my talk page, and then instead of linking to my talk page, it links to a help page that explains what talk pages are... Or alternatively it leads to an unblock request system, but also asks for my IP address that I should get by going to an other wikipedia page that should load my IP address, but in fact doesn't neither logged in or out...
Anyways, long story short - whoever designed this blocking system and the corresponding messages, should try to follow the path it sets to the users with the eyes of a newbie (maybe ask an outsider in front of you to see if they understand it) and see if they see an opportunity to streamline the hell out of it.
Best regards, Bence
On Tue, 26 Apr 2022 at 12:32, Mario Gómez mariogomwiki@gmail.com wrote:
On Mon, Apr 25, 2022 at 11:14 AM Peter Southwood < peter.southwood@telkomsa.net> wrote:
“the block message only shows up when I try to save the page”
Block messages generally appear when opening the editor. However, support is lacking in some cases for mobile web and apps [1]. There may be other issues depending on the editor, registered/unregistered, or type of block. Also it is possible that the warning was displayed, but it was easily ignored because of the lack of visibility in some scenarios.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Mobile_communication_bugs
Best,
Mario
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