I agree with the problem. There's also an issue where a lot of wikis are
duplicating these IP blocks (eg enwiki also blocks open proxies locally),
so having global-IPBE will not let people edit these local projects. They
would have to get local IPBE on each project with local open-proxy blocks,
as
On Sat, Apr 30, 2022 at 11:25 AM Steven Walling
wrote:
> On Sat, Apr 30, 2022 at 12:37 AM effe iets anders <
> effeietsand...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> This family of methods risks a two class community, but I'm not sure if
>> that is worse than the current situation. I'm not sure what would be the
On Sat, Apr 30, 2022 at 12:37 AM effe iets anders
wrote:
> Hi Danny,
>
> this is great thinking. There's one more angle that I'd like to offer, but
> it would come with plenty of risks and downsides, so I'm not sure if it is
> actually viable (I guess it falls in the 'mitigate harm' category).
With Wikipedia Zero we were able to filter the users using that program
with a flag similar to the one you propose, and then monitor them and make
informed decisions based on the quality of the editions. I suppose
something similar could be done with OPs too. That would really be a
relief. It
Den lör 30 apr. 2022 kl 09:37 skrev effe iets anders <
effeietsand...@gmail.com>:
> Hi Danny,
>
> this is great thinking. There's one more angle that I'd like to offer, but
> it would come with plenty of risks and downsides, so I'm not sure if it is
> actually viable (I guess it falls in the
Hi Danny,
this is great thinking. There's one more angle that I'd like to offer, but
it would come with plenty of risks and downsides, so I'm not sure if it is
actually viable (I guess it falls in the 'mitigate harm' category). But
just to put it out there:
One of the main reasons that we block
