Some blocked Wikidata users may be doing misconduct in the form of doing maximal automated edits in QuickStatements. This does not seem to be a crisis as the editing is blocked. I do not see a negative editing outcome for this activity, but I think the intent is to consume computing resources. It seems to be doing something with large automated batches of edit requests that do not result in Wikidata edits. This is a case of active misconduct and may be some kind of security issue.

• Documentation on Wikidata - https://www.wikidata.org/wiki//index.php?title=Wikidata:Administrators%27_noticeboardd&oldid=2314495057#Blocked_accounts_still_active_on_QuickStatements
• A sample account doing the edits - https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:VerifyToday
• Here are batch summaries of edits from one of the blocked accounts. Wikidata edits are blocked, but something is being triggered at scale - https://quickstatements.toolforge.org/#/batches/VerifyToday
• here is the error message from a user trying to replicate the process - https://test.wikidata.org/w/index.php?title=User:Infrastruktur/Sandbox1&oldid=707752
• basic documentation on QuickStatements - https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Help:QuickStatements

Steps to replicate the issue (include links if applicable):

• Sorry, I am just reporting based on what I read in a Wikidata thread. I do not have technical understanding of what might be happening.

What happens?:

A Wikidata blocked user is able to use a Wikidata automated tool, QuickStatements. I think what is happening is that QuickStatements first allows anyone to make automated edit requests, then after they make many requests, it finally checks at the end whether the user is blocked. Consequently, it processes many thousands of requests, then cancels them after they are set up.

What should have happened instead?:

QuickStatements should first check whether a user is blocked, and if they are, prohibit use of tools.

Software version (on Special:Version page; skip for WMF-hosted wikis like Wikipedia):

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