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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