[Wikimedia-l] Re: Collection / Special:Book usage

Dear Erik, Dear list, Am 22.04.22 um 21:35 Uhr schrieb Erik Moeller: > That specific book is a good example of the problems that we've always > had with PDF generation by way of LaTeX, such as complex tables. Also > note the intermittent appearance of unsupported tags in the output. > > As far as

[Wikimedia-l] Re: Open proxies and IP blocking

It would result in every block effectively being anon-only, and it would also make CU next to useless. Granting IPBE by default to autoconfirmed/extendedconfirmed/etc. users is not feasible. User:Vermont on Wikimedia projects they/the

[Wikimedia-l] Re: Collection / Special:Book usage

For those who haven't tried it out, here's what the PediaPress output looks like (after it's done compiling the book, it'll give you a preview): https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Book&bookcmd=order_collection&colltitle=User:Pmillett/Books/2009%E2%80%9310_PBA_season&partner=pediapre

[Wikimedia-l] Cascadia Wikimedians User Group

The annual report of the Cascadia Wikimedians User Group for 2021 is located at https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Cascadia_Wikimedians/2021_report Aside from participating in WikiConference North America 2021, we had a lean year due to the pandemic. We plan to resume more activities in the remainder

[Wikimedia-l] Re: Open proxies and IP blocking

Please, replace "block anonymous access" with "block unregistered access". That extremely wrong, nocive, but generalized Wikimedia habit of calling IP access "anonymous", when they are anything but anonymous, is so pervasive in the wikiverse that I still fall for it sometimes. 🙄 Paulo Santos Perne

[Wikimedia-l] Re: Open proxies and IP blocking

"*Firstly, unblock IPs that geolocate to countries where we lack contributors.Yes we will get more vandalism in those countries, but far far less than if we also unblocked all IPs in countries where we have lots of editors.*" -> That's not as simple as that, as the whole Wikipedia Zero Angola debac

[Wikimedia-l] Re: Open proxies and IP blocking

I'm skeptical about solution #1 (we lack candidates rather than roles) and #3 (without actual data is not possible to find the best solution, yesterday alone I think I wrote 30 times through VRTS "hey, you forgot to turn this VPN off"). Instead, I wholeheartedly endorse improving blocking messages.

[Wikimedia-l] Re: Open proxies and IP blocking

Hi Flo. Viewing the IP address involved is necessary. There's a reason why Stewards and CheckUsers are generally the ones involved in handling IPBE requests. There's differences between people trying to use open proxies to edit through the Great Firewall of China, people caught in IPv4 blocks from

[Wikimedia-l] Re: Open proxies and IP blocking

Thank you so much Rae. Reading some emails it seems that stewards spend their days trying blocking random people. Vito Il giorno ven 22 apr 2022 alle ore 13:32 Rae Adimer via Wikimedia-l < wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org> ha scritto: > Hi all, > > About unblocking IPs that geolocate to Africa, i

[Wikimedia-l] Re: Open proxies and IP blocking

All of these suggestions sound good. Reducing the current intimidating wall of text should be very high on the priority list. Another thing I'd suggest experimenting with is reducing the use of preemptive IP blocks, simply because an IP was identified as a potentially problematic proxy, and block

[Wikimedia-l] Re: Open proxies and IP blocking

Den fre 22 apr. 2022 kl 14:43 skrev Florence Devouard : > I have read all the comments and discussed privately with a few people. > > There are some elements of answers that are purely in the hands of > stewards, they have to discuss and find common grounds, in particular to > implementing blocks,

[Wikimedia-l] Re: Open proxies and IP blocking

I have read all the comments and discussed privately with a few people. There are some elements of answers that are purely in the hands of stewards, they have to discuss and find common grounds, in particular to implementing blocks, so that they limit damage on good people, whilst preserving t

[Wikimedia-l] Celtic Knot Conference: program contributions and onsite events

Hello all, As previously announced, the Celtic Knot Wikimedia Language Conference will take place on July 1-2, with the goal of gathering participants from various groups working on minority languages on the Wikimedia projects. In this update, we would like to share with you some exciting news abo

[Wikimedia-l] Re: Open proxies and IP blocking

Hi all, About unblocking IPs that geolocate to Africa, it’s not as though the blocked IPs are random. The problem with these affected ISPs are that they have many users on the same IP address. They aren’t traditional proxies (and traditional proxies will not be unblocked, that isn’t the issue here

[Wikimedia-l] Re: Open proxies and IP blocking

Yesterday I was on a conference call that included several Nigerian Wikipedians, I was surprised at how much of their problems editing Wikipedia were over blocks. The English language Wikipedia doesn't have an overall problem with editing numbers, nearly eight years on, editing volumes are still c