Is there a message that pops up to explain to a person
who has his/her IP
blocked that they have their IP blocked? I often wonder if I have offended
anyone when I can't access wikipedia at all for several hours to sometimes
days from home (and then am able to access it from work or school for a
while, then nothing - no other sites seem to be affected). Are these
outages
normal? Is there a problem with me being behind a firewall? Or am I in
fact
on somebodies sh*t-list? Just wondering.....
I don't think the firewall has anything to do with it. If you can access
other webpages then you should be able to edit the 'pedia... There has been a
ca. 16 hour outage today (erm, that is Tuesday) though.
BTW, I don't think that anyone has used the block IP 'feature' yet as it
seems to be pretty buggy (according to Magnus and/or Brian V.).
BTW since everyone else that contributes regularly
seems to have admit
status
now, I was wondering if I could also be given that status - for the times
when I catch somebody uploading copyrighted material or when a nasty
vandal
is having fun in the wee hours in the morning.
e-mail Jimbo with your request and he'll probably be more than glad to do it
for you;-)
regards,
wojpob
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