https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=42720
Dereckson <[email protected]> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Priority|Unprioritized |High Status|NEW |ASSIGNED Assignee|[email protected]. |[email protected] |org | Severity|normal |enhancement --- Comment #2 from Dereckson <[email protected]> --- [ What criteria for a default behavior? ] A user group permissions is filled with permissions directly related to the group goal. A bot is an automated client and so need permission allowing to execute a higher rate of hits (e.g. the api limit), or not disrupt the normal operations (e.g. the bot flag in the watchlist). Your IP exempt isn't at all related to this objective. This is why we don't include it. We aren't shopping for every useful rights, we add the rights wiki request for the custom groups and directly useful for the standard ones. [ If you want to speak about being a bit surprised... ] Personally, I'm surprised we block dedicated servers providers, instead to only block individually the servers abusing the service. For example, the configuration request I'm going to take care now will be prepared on a machine hosted by such a provider blocked on en., it. and nl. I had to request IP exempt to use my remote desktop because some administrators prefer to block a whole legitimate service often abused and give exempts to users instead. I would like to correct your message: this is not the EC2 service which which misused as an open proxy but some individual EC2 servers, generally because they were managed by inexperienced sysadmin and then exploited by script kiddies. [ Taking this bug ] -- You are receiving this mail because: You are on the CC list for the bug. You are the assignee for the bug. You are watching all bug changes. _______________________________________________ Wikibugs-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikibugs-l
