You mean something similar to http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:$wgBlockOpenProxies ? - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Bots/Requests_for_approval/ProcseeBotlooks like the best solution to the proxy part atm. It would be good if we could get it to run with global blocks. - Chris
On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 1:06 PM, George Herbert <george.herb...@gmail.com>wrote: > On Sun, Jan 18, 2009 at 6:36 PM, 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. > > > > > Perhaps we could add a front-end proxy check to all connections from > previously unknown IPs. > > If the account isn't on the known proxy users exemption list, then zap the > IP... > > > -- > -george william herbert > george.herb...@gmail.com > _______________________________________________ > 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
