On 22/11/06, simetrical@svn.wikimedia.org simetrical@svn.wikimedia.org wrote:
- Put AOL proxy IPs in whitelist, and also one from Singapore that was troublesome on enwiki (more should be added, probably?)
We should probably *not* specify our custom whitelist in the default distribution. Those AOL IPs could be useful for other site admins, and should be listed in, e.g. docs/autoblocker.txt (which might be a nice place to put some rewritten documentation on the changed autoblocker).
This has the downside that local admins on Wikimedia wikis will need to sort out their lists, but it might be better if we let local communities sort that out; bung the AOL ones somewhere accessible.
Bit of a problem either way. :|
Rob Church
On 11/23/06, Rob Church robchur@gmail.com wrote:
On 22/11/06, simetrical@svn.wikimedia.org simetrical@svn.wikimedia.org wrote:
- Put AOL proxy IPs in whitelist, and also one from Singapore that was troublesome on enwiki (more should be added, probably?)
We should probably *not* specify our custom whitelist in the default distribution.
Why not, if 95%+ of the hits from a given IP address will probably not be from the same person as the previous hit? Anyone from the AOL ranges at least is guaranteed not to be the same one as the last hit was, in fact, or pretty much so. The same should go for any IP that changes per page load. The Singapore one, I'll grant, maybe not, since I'm not totally clear on its status.
On 23/11/06, Simetrical Simetrical+wikitech@gmail.com wrote:
On 11/23/06, Rob Church robchur@gmail.com wrote:
On 22/11/06, simetrical@svn.wikimedia.org simetrical@svn.wikimedia.org wrote:
- Put AOL proxy IPs in whitelist, and also one from Singapore that was troublesome on enwiki (more should be added, probably?)
We should probably *not* specify our custom whitelist in the default distribution.
Why not, if 95%+ of the hits from a given IP address will probably not be from the same person as the previous hit? Anyone from the AOL ranges at least is guaranteed not to be the same one as the last hit was, in fact, or pretty much so. The same should go for any IP that changes per page load. The Singapore one, I'll grant, maybe not, since I'm not totally clear on its status.
Actually, I'll back down on this issue, since
* it does make a certain sense for us to give AOL proxies the default treatment, since AOL is such a shittily popular ISP * with respect to the Wikimediaising of the messages, well, we do that a little elsewhere anyway (think Sidebar layout) and it doesn't stop people customising it
Rob Church
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