[Spam/vandalism] Raise $wgAutoblockExpiry noticeably
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	Nemo_bis
	Oct 28 2012, 9:55 PM

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$wgAutoblockExpiry might be unrealistically low for today's needs.
After gerrit change 23924, twn /seems/ to have experienced way less problems https://translatewiki.net/w/i.php?title=Special:Log/block&dir=prev&offset=20111230070847&type=block
Autoblock is an effective measure, easier that CU+block and more flexible than rangeblocks, to reduce usage of bad IPs, so increasing it could be useful, especially until bug 17929 is fixed; cf. bug 25305.
This bug is just for tracking, to avoid forgetting this possibility, which has some big drawbacks on some wikis which have e.g.:

legitimate users from dynamic IPs quickly "polluted" by vandals/spammers changing them continuously;
sysops not aware of how autoblock works.

Version: unspecified
Severity: enhancement
See Also:
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=25305

Details

Reference: bz41479

	Subject	Repo	Branch	Lines +/-
	Raise $wgAutoblockExpiry from 1 day to 3 days	operations/mediawiki-config	master	+7 -0

Customize query in gerrit

Related Objects

Mentioned In: T368949: [Epic] Implement global autoblocks from global user blocks
T359653: Set temporary account expiration at 90 days
T348388: Use central login wiki for login (SUL3)
T354487: Make CentralAuth auto-creation non-blocking
T27305: Add a way to extend autoblock to longer than 1 day
Mentioned Here: T124354: Restructuring of tasks with project community-consensus-needed

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• bzimport raised the priority of this task from to Low.Nov 22 2014, 12:50 AM

• bzimport added projects: Wikimedia-Site-requests, Community-consensus-needed.

• bzimport set Reference to bz41479.

• bzimport added a subscriber: Unknown Object (MLST).

Nemo_bis created this task.Oct 28 2012, 9:55 PM

shellpolicy -> needs community discussion (and URL in this report linking to it)

Krenair moved this task from Backlog to Blocked on community consensus on the Wikimedia-Site-requests board.Aug 12 2015, 12:44 AM

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MarcoAurelio subscribed.Sep 6 2015, 10:05 PM

If the autoblock expiry can be configured for each wiki differently, before asking in a RFC to change this, we can test it at Meta first. @Nemo_bis FWIW how much time do you propose the new autoblock setting should be?

In T43479#1612834, @MarcoAurelio wrote:

If the autoblock expiry can be configured for each wiki differently, before asking in a RFC to change this, we can test it at Meta first.

Sure, that's probably best.

@Nemo_bis FWIW how much time do you propose the new autoblock setting should be?

Sigh @ all bugzilla links broken. https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/23924 went for 2 weeks, but there is no special reason.

Luke081515 subscribed.Oct 10 2015, 8:31 PM

Legoktm added a project: Stewards-and-global-tools.Oct 27 2015, 4:58 PM

Declined per T124354. There is no consensus for this change yet. Please reopen the task if consensus reached.

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Luke081515 reopened this task as Open.Feb 2 2016, 12:45 AM

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Danny_B moved this task from Unsorted to All WMF wikis on the Community-consensus-needed board.May 6 2016, 2:19 PM

MarcoAurelio removed a parent task: T43492: [DO NOT USE] Steward, global sysop and SWMT tasks bugs (tracking) [superseded by #Stewards-and-global-tools].Jan 11 2017, 11:39 PM

Matanya moved this task from Untriaged to Low priority on the Stewards-and-global-tools board.Apr 19 2017, 8:22 PM

Krinkle mentioned this in T27305: Add a way to extend autoblock to longer than 1 day.May 7 2017, 11:48 PM

Aklapper changed the subtype of this task from "Task" to "Feature Request".Feb 4 2022, 11:14 AM

TheresNoTime subscribed.Mar 4 2022, 1:54 AM

Change 767912 had a related patch set uploaded (by Samtar; author: Samtar):

[operations/mediawiki-config@master] Raise $wgAutoblockExpiry from 1 day to 3 days

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/767912

gerritbot added a project: Patch-For-Review.Mar 4 2022, 2:17 AM

I've made 767912, which explicitly sets the default for wgAutoblockExpiry to 86400 (1 day), and modifies this to 259200 (3 days) for Meta—I picked 3 days as its a noticeable increase from a day, but isn't too much longer

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Change 767912 abandoned by Samtar:

[operations/mediawiki-config@master] Raise $wgAutoblockExpiry from 1 day to 3 days

Reason:

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/767912