Its disabled for very good reason "If you enable this, every editor's IP
address will be scanned for open HTTP proxies." Good luck getting someone to
enable it.
- Chris
On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 1:36 PM, George Herbert <george.herbert(a)gmail.com>wrote;wrote:
On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 8:27 PM, Christopher Grant
<
chrisgrantmail(a)gmail.com
wrote:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Bots/Requests_for_approval/ProcseeBo…
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.herbert(a)gmail.com
> >wrote:
>
> > On Sun, Jan 18, 2009 at 6:36 PM, Christopher Grant <
> > chrisgrantmail(a)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 <p858snake(a)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...
>
Wonders (and poorly-known features) will never cease.
Anyone run with that on and got good CPU / net load data on it?
--
-george william herbert
george.herbert(a)gmail.com
_______________________________________________
WikiEN-l mailing list
WikiEN-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org
To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit:
https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l