Sorry for being late. I've just globally blocked these IPs, now we can
start the examination of their current status.

Vito

2018-03-24 0:26 GMT+01:00 Pine W <[email protected]>:

> Hello,
>
> Thanks for looking into these issues. I would like to suggest that good
> forums for this discussion prior to removing blocked IPs, and good places
> to notify Wikimedians who are likely to be interested in these subjects,
> would be the Stewards' Noticeboard on Meta at
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Stewards%27_noticeboard, and the ENWP
> Administrators' Noticeboard at
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Administrators%27_noticeboard. I
> would like to suggest that further discussion take place at those locations
> and/or the Phabricator ticket.
>
> Pine
> ( https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Pine )
>
> > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > 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
> >
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