sixwheeledbeast | Hmm blocking a whole subnet would be useful on the wiki right now. | 10:50 |
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Maxdamantus | Does wiki blocking block read access, or only write access? | 10:58 |
Maxdamantus | I'm not really involved on TMO or the wiki, but the way maemo seems to deal with blocking seems very dodgy. | 10:58 |
Maxdamantus | Just require registrations in both cases, and just be reasonably strict about registration. | 10:59 |
bencoh | well, that was brought up quite a lot of time, but according to admin team, properly blocking read/write access would require a certain amount of work | 11:00 |
Maxdamantus | Right, so you just block registrations instead. | 11:01 |
Maxdamantus | and also disable anonymous edits on the wiki. | 11:01 |
Maxdamantus | that can't be any harder than having blanket IP blocks. | 11:02 |
bencoh | well, I suppose it can, depending on what is already implemented :) | 11:02 |
Maxdamantus | Seems difficult to imagine, unless it's using some load balancer that's "configured" using spring XML beans or something. | 11:04 |
sixwheeledbeast | The x.maemo.org blocking via IP's from spam list is separate from the wiki edit block list. | 11:22 |
sixwheeledbeast | From many years looking after the wiki, I have started to indefinite ban IP's that spam. I found that 6 months or what have you only worked for that period. All indefinite blocks on the wiki are edit only and I specify only unregistered users, without blocking registration. | 11:27 |
sixwheeledbeast | To clarify from monitoring the same IP's or subnets where coming back round after the period expired. | 11:29 |
bencoh | ah, I see | 11:29 |
sixwheeledbeast | I imagine the IP's in the wiki list have already got past the x.maemo.org spam rules as that is pretty much a "Forbidden" type page. | 11:30 |
sixwheeledbeast | In fact i can confirm this by switching on Tor and getting blocked from WMO | 11:32 |
sixwheeledbeast | Goes to show the x.maemo.org blocking isn't perfect | 11:35 |
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