On 8/14/06, Titoxd@Wikimedia titoxd.wikimedia@gmail.com wrote:
Indeed, it wouldn't be necessarily wise to use an external blacklist, but we certainly can develop our own. For example, the other day I had to point out the list of Tor exit nodes blocked in the English Wikipedia to a sysop in the Spanish Wikipedia, because an editor was being disruptive there. In smaller wikis, editors who are not allowed to mess around in larger, more active wikis are able to hide through gaps in blocking coverage, which results in considerable clean-up time.
I asked through IRC at Wikimania whether there were plans to institute global blocks after Single login implementation to prevent this kind of cases. So, the question is: would it be a good idea to do so?
Blocks are really the wrong mechanism for open proxy blocking. They don't facilitate the right workflow. Right now we have zillions of addresses that should be blocked from anon editing and new accounts but aren't (tor exits which can reach wikipedia are well documented, for example) and zillions of blocked addresses which shouldn't be.. (Blocked as an open proxy when they really weren't .. or used to be an open proxy but are now assigned to a new user).