The Japanese Wikipedia has an abuse filter that prohibits IPs and new users who have not yet reached a certain number of edits or days since joining from editing other users' user pages with some exceptions. However, since around June 2023, vandals have been abusing this filter mechanism by repeatedly attempting to edit pages in the User: (利用者:) namespace in a short time, filling the filter log with records of their actions and disrupting monitoring (e.g. 1, 2). Semi-protection has been implemented for pages targeted by vandals, but they keep changing their targets, resulting in a cat-and-mouse game. Therefore, in order to prevent vandals from accessing the editing screen of any page in the User namespace (except for their own user pages) in the first place, I would like to request the following changes to the wiki settings:
- Install the extension UserPageEditProtection.
- Grant the editalluserpages permission (provided by the extension) to autoconfirmed and confirmed user group.
- Transfer the authority to grant and remove the confirmed user group from bureaucrat to accountcreator and sysop.
Restricting access to the edit screen of other users' user pages is intended to be limited to IPs and users who have not been autoconfirmed. The last change is intended as a relief measure for bona fide users who may be restricted by the introduction of the extension.
After sufficient announcement and nearly two months of discussion on the page linked below, the community has reached a consensus. For further details, please see the discussion at the village pump: