Then I think the thing to do is urge the developers to provide some sort of global block list... Perhaps this is an issue to discuss on meta.
>From what you describe, wikimedia would have to take a hsefline against *all* proxies on *all* wikimedia foundation wikis. This would then have to be enforced by a global IP block list... On 1/18/09, Christopher Grant <chrisgrantm...@gmail.com> wrote: > We have bots that do that, grawp still gets through(part of the reason is > that these proxies need to be blocked globally or else grawp can still abuse > SUL and TOR to create accounts and make the required 10 edits before he has > to find an unblocked proxy on enwiki). > - Chris > > On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 11:25 AM, K. Peachey <p858sn...@yahoo.com.au> wrote: > >> >can continue to use unblocked proxies until we block them all. ( >> >Blocking *all* proxies is nigh on impossible because computers get >> >comprimised daily... So new "open proxies" are created daily.) >> Maybe it would if we could hook someone like >> <http://www.1freeproxy.com/feed/atom/> (rss feed for just proxies) in >> so that they are automatically blocked, which i believe is Wikipedia's >> policy anyway. >> >> _______________________________________________ >> WikiEN-l mailing list >> WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org >> To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l >> > _______________________________________________ > WikiEN-l mailing list > WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org > To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l > -- Sent from my mobile device _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
