On Fri, 20 Oct 2006 16:40:53 +0200, Kelly Martin wrote:
I would support the Foundation providing an open proxy listing service to which individual projects could subscribe to or not depending on their particular circumstances.
Ok, but this is not a solution for problem of occasional vandals from shared IP (like AOL) that are blocked for a short time on Wikipedia, then come to Wikibooks, are blocked, so go to Wikinews, got blocked again, so switch to Wiktionary and so on - everything from the same IP in a few minutes. If the first block on Wikipedia was working on another projects, such situations would not happen. For me, the current state is pathological - an IP gets blocked on Wikipedia due to vandalism, but the guy behind it has still possibility to devastate any other project.