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Wikimedia wide block of users
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Description

Currently, when there is a spam attack, IP's cannot be prevented to continue their work before they are blocked on every single wiki. This gives a huge amount of work for stewards, and early detection is totally useless this way. Please provide the stewards with a new tool, a Wikimedia-wide block to make sure that a certain IP (and after SUL, maybe also username) is blocked on every single wiki. This would be very usefull in spambot attacks.


Version: unspecified
Severity: enhancement

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Reference
bz11070

Event Timeline

bzimport raised the priority of this task from to Medium.Nov 21 2014, 9:49 PM
bzimport set Reference to bz11070.
bzimport added a subscriber: Unknown Object (MLST).

[[mw:Extension:RegexBlock]] might be something worth of a thought: Wikia uses it and it seems like a good solution for this.

  • This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 8707 ***