On 2/20/07, Travis Derouin <travis(a)wikihow.com>
wrote:
From my understanding, if a registered user uses
an IP that has been
blocked, they will also be blocked, correct? If a solution that works
as a compromise is to ban just the anonymous edits from this these
IPs, while allowing registered users to edit from these IPs, some sort
of changes to Mediawiki will have to be put in place to accomodate
this, as far as I know.
Such changes were committed some time ago. They're definitely in 1.9,
possibly in 1.8 (can't remember offhand). There's now an option to
block only anonymous edits from an IP.
Additionally, this doesn't prevent a vandal
from creating multiple accounts, unless there's a way to increase the
blocking on the IP to the normal, usual level so that registered users
from that IP are also blocked.
It's also possible to block only account creation from an IP, thanks
to the same set of changes to blocking. I don't think anyone minds if
Tor accounts are allowed to edit from registered accounts, the
question is whether they should a) be allowed to edit anonymously
(answer: no), and/or b) be allowed to create accounts (answer: maybe).
Another possibility is that registered users from
these IPs will have
to confirm their registration via e-mail, if the wiki isn't configured
to do so already. It'd be nice to have this option just for this
special case.
Interesting point, but you could use the same address for all the
accounts, surely, and the only ones who could tell (and, e.g., block
the address somehow) would be people with database access. So you
could just create adjgi39qaikc(a)hotmail.com and use it for all your
accounts, and no one would be the wiser. (I assume we don't enforce
unique e-mail addresses, but even if we do, you could have
adjgi39qaikc+1(a)gmail.com, adjgi39qaikc+2(a)gmail.com, etc., which will
all be delivered to you.)'