Let me see, is the main thrill of creating abusive usernames being
that people will see them in recentchanges? Well if so consider
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=18364
"array of boring event types to exclude from recentchanges".
P.S., I tried to add the above to
http://techblog.wik
On Fri, Apr 3, 2009 at 9:16 AM, David Gerard wrote:
> 2009/4/3 Andrew Garrett :
> > On Fri, Apr 3, 2009 at 8:44 PM, Brion Vibber
> wrote:
>
> >> en.wikipedia.org and others have seen a rash of abuse coming via Tor in
> >> the form of account creations with abusive names and such; this is
> >> ta
2009/4/3 Andrew Garrett :
> On Fri, Apr 3, 2009 at 8:44 PM, Brion Vibber wrote:
>> en.wikipedia.org and others have seen a rash of abuse coming via Tor in
>> the form of account creations with abusive names and such; this is
>> taking up a large chunk of CheckUser and oversighter time and effort,
On Fri, Apr 3, 2009 at 10:11 PM, FT2 wrote:
> Concur with tightening TorBlock. if we can clamp down on open proxies
> identified by other feeds and listing sites, I'd be fine with that as well.
I'm doing some active work with the folks from Project Honeypot.
Currently I have some stuff ready to d
On Fri, Apr 3, 2009 at 8:44 PM, Brion Vibber wrote:
> en.wikipedia.org and others have seen a rash of abuse coming via Tor in
> the form of account creations with abusive names and such; this is
> taking up a large chunk of CheckUser and oversighter time and effort,
> which is apparently not too f
Concur with tightening TorBlock. if we can clamp down on open proxies
identified by other feeds and listing sites, I'd be fine with that as well.
Note that this is not just just because of one known prolific sock user, but
because of the overall net benefit to the editing community if sock-users
en.wikipedia.org and others have seen a rash of abuse coming via Tor in
the form of account creations with abusive names and such; this is
taking up a large chunk of CheckUser and oversighter time and effort,
which is apparently not too fun.
It looks like the current settings don't generally re
