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 > > > _______________________________________________ > 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
