[Toolserver-announce] [Bots] [enwp] Softblocking of toolserver-IPs in near future

[DaB.]

Hello all,

I was notified in IRC today, that the english wikipedia (enwp for short) is 
going to change their toolserver-ip-blocking-policy. Some bots were editing 
without login (I guess most time accidentally) in the past and enwp-admins 
have had trouble with that; anonymous bot-editing is and were against our 
toolserver-rules too.
So they plan to softblock (that means: editing without login is not possible) 
our IPs in 2 weeks from now.
So if you run a bot, please make sure that you login to edit and test your bot 
that it works with a softblocked ip. You may also test other tools, that edit 
the english wikipedia.
Please notice also, that it is not allowed to run a bot on the web-servers.

The discussion of the policy-changing can be found at [1].

Sincerly,
DaB.

[1] 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Bot_policy#Proposal_to_softblock_Toolserver_IP_addresses

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