Indeed, but I'd convert them to ordinary blocks as first step, so I'll have more time for checking.
Vito 2018-03-22 7:49 GMT+01:00 Dora Winterstorm <[email protected]>: > Should we check if any of the IPs are still used as proxies before mass > blocking them? > > > > ________________________________ > From: Wikitech-l <[email protected]> on behalf of Vi > to <[email protected]> > Sent: Wednesday, March 21, 2018 10:39:29 PM > To: Wikimedia developers > Subject: Re: [Wikitech-l] Unblocking 79 IPs blocked as open proxies 12 > years ago (T189840) > > 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 <[email protected]>: > > > 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) ( > > [email protected]) 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 > > [email protected] > > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l > > _______________________________________________ > > Wikitech-l mailing list > > [email protected] > > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l > > > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l > _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
