[Wikimedia-l] Open proxies and IP blocking

2022-05-01 Thread gbfv
Another somewhat obvious solution: instead, or before, of blocking, make the edits coming from one of the (too) dangerous IPs go through a reviewal process before getting published; hopefully a very quick one. In theory this would be against the original Wikipedia ideas, but I saw that it's some

[Wikimedia-l] Open proxies and IP blocking

2022-05-01 Thread Gabriele
Look an obvious first step against this insanity is to at least act proportionately: block only those IPs that *have* been a source of too large a problem to be dealt in other ways, do so only for a limited time (it might be an incremental increase, maybe beginning even with just few hours, up t

[Wikimedia-l] Open proxies and IP blocking

2022-04-20 Thread Florence Devouard
Hello friends Short version : We need to find solutions to avoid so many africans being globally IP blocked due to our No Open Proxies policy. *https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/No_open_proxies/Unfair_blocking* Long version : I'd like to raise attention on an issue, which has been getting wors