https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=48660

--- Comment #3 from Steven Walling <swall...@wikimedia.org> ---
(In reply to comment #2)
> On the same note, I'm working on a series of regular expressions that can
> efficiently categorise blocks. At the moment it's largely accurate for indef
> blocks from the ipblocks table, and is divided into four categories:
> 
> -vandalism/other bad-faith actions
> -Username problems
> -Spam
> -Sockpuppetry
> -Things not covered by the other categories ("misc").
> 
> I'm going to spend some cycles at the hackathon refining them a bit further
> and
> running them against the block log to make sure they're compatible; I think
> the
> goal after that is to, at some point, work them into UserMetrics and provide
> a
> way of accurately bucketing blocked users, providing some slightly more
> granular data.

Adding type/reason would be a wonderful future enhancement. I know how
difficult it must be to accurately parse the block log, but knowing the
different types is of great use.

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