Looks like you hit the abuse filter, an automated anti-abuse system. In your case it thought your action matched that of a spammer (abuse filter 47) however it looks like an admin already reviewed this and unblocked you
On Thu, Oct 24, 2019 at 4:05 PM Damian Mills <[email protected]> wrote: > My username is: Shtzdba > > Thanks for looking. > > -----Original Message----- > From: MediaWiki-l <[email protected]> On Behalf Of > John > Sent: Thursday, October 24, 2019 3:13 PM > To: MediaWiki announcements and site admin list < > [email protected]> > Subject: Re: [MediaWiki-l] How do you get unblocked? > > What is your user name you registered with? > > On Thu, Oct 24, 2019 at 2:54 PM Damian Mills <[email protected]> wrote: > > > I registered an account on mediawiki tried to post to the VisualEditor > > talk page. I immediate received this message: > > > > This action has been automatically identified as harmful, and you have > > been prevented from executing it. In addition, to protect MediaWiki, > > your user account and all associated IP addresses have been blocked > > from editing. If this has occurred in error, please contact an > > administrator. A brief description of the abuse rule which your action > > matched is: Specific spam > > > > I certainly didn't try and post any spam. There's no clear guide on > > how to get unblocked anywhere. I can't post anywhere to ask because > > the site blocks me. I found this mailing list, so maybe someone on the > > list can tell me? > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > MediaWiki-l mailing list > > To unsubscribe, go to: > > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l > > > _______________________________________________ > MediaWiki-l mailing list > To unsubscribe, go to: > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l > _______________________________________________ > MediaWiki-l mailing list > To unsubscribe, go to: > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l > _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list To unsubscribe, go to: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
