Bináris wrote: > Hi folks, > > I am new to this list but I have spent more than 5 years on Hungarian > Wikipedia.
Welcome here, Bináris :) > Please visit > https://hu.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&list=blocks&bklimit=5000&bkprop=id|user|userid|by|byid|timestamp|expiry|reason|range|flagsand > scroll down to the end. A better url for those of us which are not sysops in huwiki: https://hu.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&list=blocks&bkprop=id|user|userid|by|byid|timestamp|expiry|reason|range|flags&bkstart=2006-01-01T00:00:00Z&bklimit=500 > There are a lot of blocks without any visible > admin. All of them have > by="" byid="0" reason="Auto-added for persistent vandalism; possible open > proxy." > > What does this mean? Was it perhaps done by developers? Probably. The same blocks seem to be present on all wikis. I suspect some script banned them automatically everywhere. > Is this specific for 2005 or shall we still expect such blocks? No. Such kind of global blocks would be done at meta by a steward: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:GlobalBlockList And if some script were to be put into place, it would get a fake username. _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
