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Enable "IP block exemption" on all Wikimedia wikis
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Author: Wiki.Melancholie

Description:
Enable IP (range) block exemptions on all Wikimedia wikis.
There is no reason why every single wiki would have to request this.

Reasons for this:

  1. The proposed tightening of TorBlock will make this necessary! http://techblog.wikimedia.org/2009/04/planning-to-tighten-torblock-restrictions/
  2. E.g. my bot is running on a VPS, but the whole IP range of Server4You is blocked on jawiki e.g., but jawiki doesn't have IP block exemption it seems, so no way to run my bot there.

It would be even cooler to have a "*global* IP block exemption" SUL feature ;-)

Version: unspecified
Severity: enhancement
URL: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:IP_block_exemption

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• bzimport raised the priority of this task from to Medium.Nov 21 2014, 10:35 PM
• bzimport added projects: WMF-General-or-Unknown, Shell.
• bzimport set Reference to bz18337.
• bzimport added a subscriber: Unknown Object (MLST).
• bzimport created this task.Apr 4 2009, 9:48 AM
• bzimport added a comment.Apr 5 2009, 1:44 PM

mcdevitd wrote:

In answer to your last point, there is a global IP block exemption. You can request it at http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Steward_requests/Global#Request_for_global_IP_block_exempt.

DerHexer added a comment.Apr 5 2009, 2:27 PM

(In reply to comment #1)

In answer to your last point, there is a global IP block exemption. You can
request it at
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Steward_requests/Global#Request_for_global_IP_block_exempt.

Well, that section was yesterday created by Spacebirdy herself ( http://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Steward_requests%2FGlobal&diff=1448743&oldid=1448708 ) in order to be prepared for handling future requests.

Kind regards
DerHexer

• bzimport added a comment.Apr 11 2009, 1:22 PM

bretthillebrand wrote:

see also bug 18337

• bzimport added a comment.Apr 11 2009, 1:23 PM

bretthillebrand wrote:

(In reply to comment #3)

see also bug 18337

Ugh, blond moment, I meant bug 18343

• bzimport added a comment.May 6 2009, 6:09 AM

Wiki.Melancholie wrote:

Fixed!
See http://techblog.wikimedia.org/2009/04/tor-configuration-changes-and-ip-block-exemption-rollout/

A "global IP block exemption" feature would still be a cool thing, though.
Compare http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Steward_requests/Global#Global_IP_block_exempt_for_MelancholieBot
See bug 18343.

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