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Long-term abuse at enwiki's WP:ANI
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Administrators'_noticeboard/Incidents has been under varying levels of protection for most of the last two weeks. It is currently (since 4 Janaury 2018) under indefinite "extended-confirmed" protection, which means that accounts can't edit the page unless they have 500+ edits and are more than 30 days old.

The disruption (which appears to have been revdel'd or oversighted) seems to be coming from a single source, but @NeilN says that they've been unable to find an edit filter or similar solution that would stop the edits other than generally blocking newer accounts from posting to the noticeboard. This is obviously a problem, because it means that most editors are unable to report problems that they find. Is there anything else that could be done to stop this disruption?

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• Whatamidoing-WMF created this task.Jan 8 2018, 7:31 PM
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Bawolff added subscribers: • TBolliger, Bawolff.Jan 22 2018, 8:27 PM

CC'ing Trevor because anti-harrasment may be interested in this.

This is the first I've heard of this situation, so I'd have to research what's going on before I could say if there's anything we could do.

• TBolliger added subscribers: • CSindersWMF, • SPoore, • PEarleyWMF, Jalexander.EditedJan 22 2018, 9:01 PM

It's no longer edit protected, as of January 9th. Not really sure what we can do beyond monitoring.

Bawolff added a comment.Feb 22 2018, 9:12 PM

Looks like not much is happening here, and WP:ANI is now unprotected. Not sure if we would have been able to do anything in any case.

Can this bug be closed?

• TBolliger closed this task as Declined.Feb 22 2018, 10:12 PM

There have been a few 24-hour protections set this month, most recently Feb 20. The block is only set to autoconfirmed, so most users can report and participate.

Marking this task as Declined because there's not much else we can do short of this protection.

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