Look an obvious first step against this insanity is to at least act 
proportionately: block only those IPs that *have* been a source of too large a 
problem to be dealt in other ways, do so only for a limited time (it might be 
an incremental increase, maybe beginning even with just few hours, up to maybe 
6 months), and *use more proportionate measures when they (still) might be 
enough*, such as the slow-down or delays that others proposed, and even those 
in incremental increases.
And where there's no unwieldy problem, just do nothing (other than reverting 
the damage).

Just a few weeks ago I was pondering how bewilderingly "not badly" Wikipedia 
works in practice, despite his debatable mantra of allowing immediate 
modifications from anonymous persons.
Please don't ruin it, unless you have very good comprehensive alternatives.

Kind regards,
Gabriele
_______________________________________________
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/FZTJSOESUY3CWCT6O7WO7RWCIRJ6D4JG/
To unsubscribe send an email to wikimedia-l-le...@lists.wikimedia.org

Reply via email to