[Labs-l] MediaWiki API change: all edits from Labs/Tools will be blocked if not logged in

[Gergo Tisza]

On Mon, Jan 16, 2017 at 5:15 PM, Bryan Davis <bd808 at wikimedia.org> wrote:

> Quoting from Tech News (2017, week 03) [0]:
>
> "Sometimes edits in MediaWiki by mistake are shown coming from private
> IP addresses such as 127.0.0.1. Edits and other contributions logged
> to these IP addresses will be blocked and shown the reason from
> MediaWiki:Softblockrangesreason. This should not affect most users.
> Bots and other tools running on Wikimedia Labs, including Tool Labs
> will receive a "blocked" error if they try to edit without being
> logged in."
>
>
> See <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T154698> for more details and
> <https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/324215/> for the config change
> that will enable the blocks. I would expect this to become active on
> 2017-01-19.
>
> [0]: https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-
> ambassadors/2017-January/001534.html


The schedule did not go as expected, but this should be live now.
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