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.....
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.
Cheers!
Daniel Lee Mayer wrote:
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 hope that IP blocking is very rare and confined to the sort of character very unlike yourself, i.e. the type of person who just goes around inserting foul language randomly and the like. You don't do that, I imagine. If you've merely _offended_ someone, that's no excuse for an ip block.
Is the history of ip blocks made public somewhere? I should know, but I don't. :-(
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.
Yes, what's your wikipedia id? (You can answer me in email and we won't need to bother the list.)
--Jimbo
On mar, 2002-04-02 at 10:08, Jimmy Wales wrote:
Is the history of ip blocks made public somewhere? I should know, but I don't. :-(
[[wikipedia:Blocked IPs]]
However the log's a bit buggy (pretty UNIX timestamps instead of dates!)
The IP ban function needs some interface work as well; there should be a confirm-and-explain step, and perhaps an obvious way to unblock, should it ever be necessary.
Incidentally, I've protected said log page, since allowing anyone to edit it is tantamount to allowing anyone to ban IP addresses, which I'm not so sure is a good idea. It can be changed back easily enough if there's a good reason.
-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)
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
On lun, 2002-04-01 at 20:03, Daniel Lee Mayer wrote:
Is there a message that pops up to explain to a person who has his/her IP blocked that they have their IP blocked?
"Your IP has been blocked! Your edits will not be saved. Please contact a sysop to have the block removed, or try again later."
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.....
No, if you were blocked you just couldn't edit pages. You could still access the site.
-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)
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