On 4/20/07, Travis Derouin travis@wikihow.com wrote:
Has there been any thought been put into this? Are there any wikis doing this right now? I have a few basic ideas about possible solutions, but would like to find out if anyone has spent any time on this first.
MW has DNSBL support, I believe, so if you create a front-end for sysops to maintain one of those, you could use that for wiki-wide IP bans without modifying the software. It was suggested that perhaps Wikimedia could set up a server to portscan people trying to edit to ensure that they aren't open relays or whatnot. I don't think any of this infrastructure is in place for crosswiki username blocks, although I could be wrong.
See also: http://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8707