[WikiEN-l] IP Blocks

[Jason Gazeley]

Oh, the IP was blocked for "vandalism" which makes sense when you look at 
the edits made to Help:Contents and the other Community Portal page (name 
escapes me off the top of my head)

Jason


>From: Brock Batsell <wikipedia at theskeptik.com>
>Reply-To: English Wikipedia <wikien-l at Wikipedia.org>
>To: English Wikipedia <wikien-l at Wikipedia.org>
>Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] IP Blocks
>Date: Wed, 11 Jan 2006 13:12:53 -0600
>
>Looking at the headers from that e-mail, it appears to be:
>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Log/block?page=User:212.219.116.67
>
>On Jan 11, 2006, at 10:09 AM, David Gerard wrote:
>
>>Jason Gazeley wrote:
>>
>>>Is there any way to block IP's yet allow logged in users to edit  from 
>>>that
>>>IP? My college's IP got blocked this morning due to Vandalism. I  was 
>>>just
>>>about to revert some other vandalism at lunch when I got the  blocked 
>>>notice.
>>
>>
>>MediaWiki bug 550:
>>
>>     http://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=550
>>
>>At present it's got a few suggested patches, it's working out what's
>>the best one to implement in terms of its social effects.
>>
>>(cc to wikitech-l - what's the current developers' view on a good
>>solution to 550? Are we anywhere near having one implemented?)
>>
>>As for the block itself, that's obviously collateral damage, and if
>>you can tell us the IP it should be promptly unblocked. What was the
>>text of the block message?
>>
>>
>>- d.
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