Its disabled for very good reason "If you enable this, every editor's IP address will be scanned for open HTTP proxies." Good luck getting someone to enable it. - Chris
On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 1:36 PM, George Herbert <[email protected]>wrote: > On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 8:27 PM, Christopher Grant < > [email protected] > > wrote: > > > You mean something similar to > > http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:$wgBlockOpenProxies ? - > > > > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Bots/Requests_for_approval/ProcseeBotlooks > > like the best solution to the proxy part atm. It would be good if we > > could get it to run with global blocks. > > - Chris > > > > On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 1:06 PM, George Herbert < > [email protected] > > >wrote: > > > > > On Sun, Jan 18, 2009 at 6:36 PM, Christopher Grant < > > > [email protected] > > > > wrote: > > > > > > > We have bots that do that, grawp still gets through(part of the > reason > > is > > > > that these proxies need to be blocked globally or else grawp can > still > > > > abuse > > > > SUL and TOR to create accounts and make the required 10 edits before > he > > > has > > > > to find an unblocked proxy on enwiki). > > > > - Chris > > > > > > > > On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 11:25 AM, K. Peachey <[email protected] > > > > > > wrote: > > > > > > > > > >can continue to use unblocked proxies until we block them all. ( > > > > > >Blocking *all* proxies is nigh on impossible because computers get > > > > > >comprimised daily... So new "open proxies" are created daily.) > > > > > Maybe it would if we could hook someone like > > > > > <http://www.1freeproxy.com/feed/atom/> (rss feed for just proxies) > > in > > > > > so that they are automatically blocked, which i believe is > > Wikipedia's > > > > > policy anyway. > > > > > > > > > > > > > Perhaps we could add a front-end proxy check to all connections from > > > previously unknown IPs. > > > > > > If the account isn't on the known proxy users exemption list, then zap > > the > > > IP... > > > > Wonders (and poorly-known features) will never cease. > > Anyone run with that on and got good CPU / net load data on it? > > > -- > -george william herbert > [email protected] > _______________________________________________ > WikiEN-l mailing list > [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l > _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
