On Mar 21, 2018, at 1:52 PM, James Hare <jamesmhare(a)gmail.com> wrote: I think deleting those block records is acceptable, and if they need to be blocked again, we can just block them again. Instituting blocks like this seems like an anti-pattern we should avoid. 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 _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

I think deleting those block records is acceptable, and if they need to be blocked again, we can just block them again. Instituting blocks like this seems like an anti-pattern we should avoid. 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 _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Indeed, but I'd convert them to ordinary blocks as first step, so I'll have more time for checking. Vito 2018-03-22 7:49 GMT+01:00 Dora Winterstorm <setupmaster(a)outlook.com>om>: Vi convert this block be _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

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 https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Stewards%27_noticeboard, and the ENWP Administrators' Noticeboard at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Administrators%27_noticeboard. I would like to suggest that further discussion take place at those locations and/or the Phabricator ticket. Pine ( https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Pine ) being various not where not _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l