If you give me a list of stuffs blocked in this legacy manner I'll convert them to regular global blocks to be handled by the usual community means.
Vito 2018-03-21 19:52 GMT+01:00 James Hare <jamesmh...@gmail.com>: > I think deleting those block records is acceptable, and if they need to be > blocked again, we can just block them again. Instituting blocks like this > seems like an anti-pattern we should avoid. > > > On March 21, 2018 at 11:50:50 AM, Brad Jorsch (Anomie) ( > bjor...@wikimedia.org) wrote: > > In 2005–2006 a sysadmin blocked 79 IP addresses on all wikis as being > automatically-detected open proxies, without recording them in the block > log or attributing the block to any user account. These incomplete records > are now causing errors when MediaWiki tries to access them in various > places, see https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T189840. > > Since these are all over 12 years old, it seems reasonably likely that many > of these are no longer open proxies. Rather than trying to fix the > incomplete records, I'm just going to remove them. > > Any existing blocks of these IPs that are not causing errors will not be > removed. At first glance this seems relevant mainly to enwiki, where only 5 > of the IPs have incomplete records. 21 are currently blocked there with > complete records (19 since 2005 or earlier), and the other 53 are not > currently blocked there. > > The list of IPs is at https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/P6876 in case > anyone wants to review them for potential reblocking. > > -- > Brad Jorsch (Anomie) > Senior Software Engineer > Wikimedia Foundation > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l > _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
