Suggestions to resolve open proxies and IP block issues. - Building bots/ tools or features, when a user logs in from an open proxy. A notification pops up stating “ You have login from an open proxy. Kindly click on this link to enter your username,password and IP address. - If Username is verified. Access is granted to edit content. - If username is not verified. Kindly state “ There’s no username as such. Access denied. - After editing, thanks for your contribution. Your edit will be reviewed within (this duration) before its published. - Username must match with user login entered. - After reviewing, if there’s no form of vandalism. User receives a notification “edit from IP address is published”. If there’s a form of vandalism user receives a notification message “ edit from IP address contains vandalism content. Therefore user is blocked”.
Kindly note: Please this just an idea that came in mind. If there are stewards here who will like to go through this and share the feedback with me I will Ben grateful. On Tue, Apr 26, 2022 at 4:08 PM Bence Damokos <bdamo...@gmail.com> wrote: > Thanks Mario - indeed it seems to be a bit random, maybe there was an > update recently- on Hungarian Wikipedia as an anon I today see an edit > button but then it tells me I am blocked (it doesn't give any real > explanations, but at least the link to contact the stewards goes directly > to the contact form) , on English Wikipedia when logged out I get the edit > button and block message, whereas if I am logged in I get a locked pencil > edit button and a nightmare of a block message: it is a wall of text that > asks me to put something on my talk page, and then instead of linking to my > talk page, it links to a help page that explains what talk pages are... Or > alternatively it leads to an unblock request system, but also asks for my > IP address that I should get by going to an other wikipedia page that > should load my IP address, but in fact doesn't neither logged in or out... > > Anyways, long story short - whoever designed this blocking system and the > corresponding messages, should try to follow the path it sets to the users > with the eyes of a newbie (maybe ask an outsider in front of you to see if > they understand it) and see if they see an opportunity to streamline the > hell out of it. > > Best regards, > Bence > > On Tue, 26 Apr 2022 at 12:32, Mario Gómez <mariogomw...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> On Mon, Apr 25, 2022 at 11:14 AM Peter Southwood < >> peter.southw...@telkomsa.net> wrote: >> >>> “the block message only shows up when I try to save the page” >>> >> >> Block messages generally appear when opening the editor. However, support >> is lacking in some cases for mobile web and apps [1]. There may be other >> issues depending on the editor, registered/unregistered, or type of block. >> Also it is possible that the warning was displayed, but it was easily >> ignored because of the lack of visibility in some scenarios. >> >> [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Mobile_communication_bugs >> >> Best, >> >> Mario >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Wikimedia-l mailing list -- wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org, guidelines >> at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and >> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l >> Public archives at >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org/message/5LSGKOMVCAFR27TFEBET5MG53IHIAEUC/ >> To unsubscribe send an email to wikimedia-l-le...@lists.wikimedia.org > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list -- wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org, guidelines > at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l > Public archives at > https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org/message/TXFD4O7EYSS46JPI2FXZ55SA5HTO3K6M/ > To unsubscribe send an email to wikimedia-l-le...@lists.wikimedia.org -- Joris Darlington Quarshie
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