The list of sensitive IPs on the English Wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Sensitive_IP_addresses, has gotten long enough that it is rather unwieldy on the block screen, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki:Blockiptext. It would be nice if we could replace the template with an automatic warning when an admin goes to block a sensitive IP, similar to what happens when an admin attempts to block themselves.
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| Status | Subtype | Assigned | Task | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Open | None | T151484 Create a warning on the block page when admins are blocking a sensitive IP | |||
| Open | Feature | None | T311351 Highlight IPs in the CheckUser results that are sensitive or internal IPs |
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Maybe a special MediaWiki:Sensitive-addresses or another Special Page could be created for this. Should support listing ranges too. I agree it would be a good idea.
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Also, for reference, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki:Ipb-blockingself is the message seen when an admin tries to block themselves, though I'm not sure what makes it show only when the admin goes to block themselves.
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You can remove the ips from the section "Sensitive for other reasons" by adding the ips to the "MediaWiki:Autoblock whitelist" to avoid autoblocking of all useres coming over this ip address and that should also works for bots.
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There is a gadget on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki:Group-sysop.js that alerts an admin when they are about to block a sensitive IP.
Before starting with any codework I'd check if any of these sensitive IPs are outdated, though.