On Mon, Jan 16, 2017 at 5:15 PM, Bryan Davis <bd...@wikimedia.org> wrote:
> Quoting from Tech News (2017, week 03) [0]: > > "Sometimes edits in MediaWiki by mistake are shown coming from private > IP addresses such as 127.0.0.1. Edits and other contributions logged > to these IP addresses will be blocked and shown the reason from > MediaWiki:Softblockrangesreason. This should not affect most users. > Bots and other tools running on Wikimedia Labs, including Tool Labs > will receive a "blocked" error if they try to edit without being > logged in." > > > See <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T154698> for more details and > <https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/324215/> for the config change > that will enable the blocks. I would expect this to become active on > 2017-01-19. > > [0]: https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech- > ambassadors/2017-January/001534.html The schedule did not go as expected, but this should be live now.
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