I suppose what it would be, at a technical level, would be "account only, not IP" blocking, and you'd block edits from [[User:0.0.0.0]], etc.
(At least, that's how I -- someone who has no idea how anon account editing works -- would imagine it to work).
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On 6/22/05, David 'DJ' Hedley spyders@btinternet.com wrote:
It's something to think about to implement, but its not possible at the moment. It would be good for the extreme cases of mass-vandalism (Cambridge University has IPs getting blocked/unblocked/warned almost constantly, for example). ----- Original Message ----- From: "Fastfission" fastfission@gmail.com To: "English Wikipedia" wikien-l@wikipedia.org Sent: Wednesday, June 22, 2005 9:01 PM Subject: [WikiEN-l] Anon IP blocking without account
Is there a given anon IP address be blocked from editing unless it signs up with an account? I think this would be quite useful in situations of persistent vandalism from high schools or libraries, etc.
It would just say something like, "This IP is blocked from editing anonymously because of past problems with vandalism, but you are free to start an account and then you can edit all you want" or something like that. Is this possible?
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