[WikiEN-l] Re: [Foundation-l] Most read US newpaper blasts Wikipedia

Fri Dec 2 02:26:13 UTC 2005

On 11/30/05, Keith Old <keithold at gmail.com> wrote:
> It also means that many users are blocked for 24 hours as a result of
> sharing an IP with a vandal. I had to change my ISP last year because of
> vandalism from someone else. We also have had rogue registered users but at
> least we have procedures to deal with those.

But there *should* be an "easy" technical solution to this, as this is
the same issue as the "tor question". If user accounts could be
manually given a "don't block even if they have the same IP as a
vandal unless this specific username is blocked", then we'd be set.
Perhaps it could automatically click in after 100 edits or something
like that, but even if it was set by hand on request, it wouldn't be
that big of a deal.

This, along with the "allow blocking of anonymous edits from specific
problem IPs" issue is something that would really, really, really be
great if it were ever implemented...

FF