[Foundation-l] How to edit wikipedia when stupid mods block all Thai ip addresses

[Gerard Meijssen]

Hoi,
Thanks for being this kind.
Thank you,
     GerardM

Tim Starling schreef:
> Walter van Kalken wrote:
>   
>> I am getting extremely impatient with RonaldB he seems to have a fetish 
>> for blocking Thai IP addresses on the Dutch wikipedia and he doesn't 
>> answerd emails send to him. I cannot even edit when I am logged in, not 
>> from a friends computer which uses a different provider. Is it the 
>> wikimedia foundations goal to block me??
>>
>> The last two weeks I have found the IP adresses of my provider 
>> constantly blocked, pre-emptively by RonaldB without any sign of 
>> vandalism by those IP adresses. Wikipedia can be editted by anyone? Not 
>> by me!
>>     
>
> The first time this happened, we fixed it by listing the True Internet
> proxies in the trusted XFF list. True Internet have since expanded their
> proxy list. A polite request to the devs to update the list would have
> seen this problem fixed immediately. However, Waerth is apparently not
> capable of polite requests, he only knows screaming and yelling, and I had
> no desire whatsoever to put myself in the path of his tirade. But I think
> this has gone on long enough. I'm going to list the extra proxies, polite
> request or no.
>
> True Internet appear to have secured their proxies properly now, denying
> requests that come from outside their network. So adding them to the list
> is no longer any kind of security risk for us. In time, they may even be
> removed from the open proxy lists that sysops like RonaldB use as a source.
>
> -- Tim Starling