Hello,
Thanks for looking into these issues. I would like to suggest that good
forums for this discussion prior to removing blocked IPs, and good places
to notify Wikimedians who are likely to be interested in these subjects,
would be the Stewards' Noticeboard on Meta at
. I
would like to suggest that further discussion take place at those locations
and/or the Phabricator ticket.
Pine
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> On March 21, 2018 at 11:50:50 AM, Brad Jorsch (Anomie) (
> bjorsch(a)wikimedia.org) wrote:
>
> In 2005–2006 a sysadmin blocked 79 IP addresses on all wikis as being
> automatically-detected open proxies, without recording them in the
block
> > log or attributing the block to any user account. These incomplete
> records
> > are now causing errors when MediaWiki tries to access them in various
> > places, see
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T189840.
> >
> > Since these are all over 12 years old, it seems reasonably likely
that
many
> of these are no longer open proxies. Rather than trying to fix the
> incomplete records, I'm just going to remove them.
>
> Any existing blocks of these IPs that are not causing errors will not
be
> > removed. At first glance this seems relevant mainly to enwiki, where
> only 5
> > of the IPs have incomplete records. 21 are currently blocked there
with
> > complete records (19 since 2005 or
earlier), and the other 53 are not
> > currently blocked there.
> >
> > The list of IPs is at
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/P6876 in
case
> > anyone wants to review them for
potential reblocking.
> >
> > --
> > Brad Jorsch (Anomie)
> > Senior Software Engineer
> > Wikimedia Foundation