[Foundation-l] Illegal IP blocking on the Dutch wikipedia

[Luna]

On 12/31/06, Andre Engels <andreengels at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 2007/1/1, James Hare <messedrocker at gmail.com>:
> >
> > Open proxies are banned from all Wikimedia projects.
>
>
> No, they are not. On nl:Wikipedia they  have not been blocked, partly
> exactly for the reason Waerth mentions. Apart from that, if they are
> blocked
> everywhere, then who has decided this?



 My understanding is that there is such a prohibition:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WM:OP
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WM:NOP

Beyond that, I don't have the answers.

-Luna