[Foundation-l] Illegal IP blocking on the Dutch wikipedia

Walter van Kalken walter at vankalken.net
Mon Jan 1 01:27:21 UTC 2007


I asked the mods on IRC and allthey could do was laugh and say wait for 
tomorrow

These call themselves mods.

Waerth

>I don't think it's that English Wikipedia allows them, it's that they
>haven't been blocked yet.
>
>I don't know if Dutch Wikipedia has a formal requesting-unblock system in
>place but leave some sort of message on your talk page saying the autoblock
>doesn't allow you to edit. At least on English Wikipedia, open proxy blocks
>get lifted this way.
>
>On 12/31/06, Walter van Kalken <walter at vankalken.net> wrote:
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>>I was busy writing on the bangkok bombings. And if this is wiki policy
>>why does en.wikipedia allow these ip's to edit. The strangest thing is.
>>I am logged in. So I should be able to edit. but I get the message that
>>the ip is blocked because of open proxy. These ip's are the range of my
>>provider. Which has 500.000 subscribers.
>>
>>Waerth
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>>>Open proxies are banned from all Wikimedia projects.
>>>
>>>But Thailand, according to you, runs entirely on open proxies.
>>>
>>>We'll have to make an exception.
>>>
>>>On 12/31/06, Walter van Kalken <walter at vankalken.net> wrote:
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>>>>Wanting to edit on the nl.wikipedia I found my IP blocked. All of the
>>>>IP's of my Thai internet provider are blocked it seems. So I cannot edit
>>>>nl.wikipedia!
>>>>
>>>>On nl: user RonaldB has a private project of AUTOBLOCKING all open
>>>>proxies. All Thai providers use open proxies. So now I am blocked and
>>>>cannot log in. RonaldB never got agreement on nl: for this nor is this a
>>>>wikimedia policy to stop all users in Thailand from editing. Still
>>>>
>>>>I AM FUCKING BLOCKED AGAIN.
>>>>
>>>>Waerth
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