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
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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