[Foundation-l] [foundation-l] Open proxies an interwiki matter

[White Cat]

Unfortunately so do spambots. Especially on wikis with no admins present
this is a serious problems. Please do not involve controversial sites such
as hrw.org and amnesty.org to this discussion. Thanks.

On 9/8/07, teun spaans <teun.spaans at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I think there are many countries in the world where people would edit
> rather
> through open proxies than directly through an easily traceble ip-address.
> See hrw.org and amnesty.org
>
> teun spaans
>
> On 9/8/07, White Cat <wikipedia.kawaii.neko at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > I think we really need to have some automation in dealing with these.
> >
> > Granted there are notable exceptions on some wikis such as the Chinese
> > wikis, but for every other wiki there needs to be a more centralized
> block
> > on open proxies.
> >
> > How likely is an average person to edit a wiki from an open proxy? How
> > likely is a spam bot or some destructive vandal script to preform the
> > task.
> >
> > I think a solution could be like the spam list - a centralized meta page
> > for
> > open proxy blocks.
> >
> >    - White Cat
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