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Mathias Schindler wrote:
I can imagine that this is a time-consuming and sometimes frustrating effort.
Honestly we don't spend a lot of effort on it.
My suggestion would be not to block these IP addresses any more but to deliver slightly modified content to them, basically the same Wikipedia text plus a ad banner or Google Adsense box right above the text or next to it. That way, it would at least be of some sort of reward for the foundation running the servers...
That would probably violate the terms and get our Adsense account canceled. :)
- -- brion vibber (brion @ wikimedia.org)