I’m not quite sure what you want. An IP address may be used by one or many 
anonymous contributors (workplaces, universities and schools can often appear 
to Wikipedia as a single IP address). Each of those contributors may make one 
or more edits. Each of those edits may be vandalism (a deliberate intention to 
damage and hopefully reverted), poor quality but good faith edits (which are 
reverted for a wide variety of reasons) or acceptable contributions.

Also there is a reluctance to block a known multi-user IP address because of 
misbehaviour by what appears to be one person.

So, when you say “IP addresses that are vandalism”, can you more specific about 
what you want or don’t want?

Kerry

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> On 16 Jan 2019, at 9:03 pm, Thomas Stieve <[email protected]> 
> wrote:
> 
> Dear Listserv,
> 
> Hope all is well. I am mapping IP address edits per country for 271
> language Wikipedias. I would like to exclude IP addresses that are
> vandalism. I was thinking of using the ipblocks table for the IP addresses
> to be excluded. Because this project is in so many different languages and
> my programming skills are intermediate, I would like to use the Wikipedia
> tables or registers that the Wikipedians in those language use to mark
> vandalism. If anyone has another idea, I would be most grateful. Perhaps I
> am missing a way that Wikipedians across languages are using to mark
> vandalism.
> 
> Thank you,
> Tom
> 
> 
> -- 
> Thomas Stieve
> Ph.D. Candidate
> School of Geography and Development
> University of Arizona
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