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Block open proxy edits to wikis using the DroneBL
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Author: and1eternal1

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Due to the large amount of vandalism from zombie proxies and other compromised machines, it would be helpful to automatically block said machines anon-only with account creation blocked to prevent the creation of vandalism-only accounts and sock puppets.

To prevent this, the DroneBL blacklist (see http://dronebl.org) can be used to automatically prevent edits from known open proxies.

Obviously, this won't stop all open proxy-based vandalism, but it will greatly cut down on the quantity of the abuse, and it will increase the time it takes for the vandals to find unblocked open proxies.

Thanks.

Version: unspecified
Severity: enhancement

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• bzimport raised the priority of this task from to Medium.Nov 22 2014, 2:23 AM
• bzimport added projects: Wikimedia-Site-requests, Community-consensus-needed.
• bzimport set Reference to bz58928.
• bzimport added a subscriber: Unknown Object (MLST).
• bzimport created this task.Dec 24 2013, 1:21 AM
Bawolff added a comment.Dec 24 2013, 4:36 AM

So basically you're asking for $wgEnableDnsBlacklist = true; and $wgDnsBlacklistUrls[] = 'dnsbl.dronebl.org.'; on all wikimedia wikis?

Bawolff added a comment.Dec 24 2013, 5:21 AM

For reference, a previous attempt at doing something similar (using SORBS) was done in 2005. A lot of things have changed since then, and I don't no what happened with that, but https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Proxy_blocking suggests it was enabled and then later disabled.

Dereckson added a comment.Dec 24 2013, 10:14 PM

This should be decided at wiki level, not for every wiki.

• werdna unsubscribed.Dec 10 2014, 5:24 PM
Krenair moved this task from Backlog to Blocked on community consensus on the Wikimedia-Site-requests board.Aug 12 2015, 12:41 AM
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Krenair changed the task status from Open to Stalled.Aug 12 2015, 12:42 AM
Krenair subscribed.

It sounds like the only person interested in this task was a former bugzilla account, marking as stalled.

Krenair closed this task as Invalid.Aug 12 2015, 12:43 AM
Krenair claimed this task.

In fact we might as well just go ahead and mark it as invalid since this was Community-consensus-needed

Krenair moved this task from Blocked on community consensus to Done on the Wikimedia-Site-requests board.Aug 22 2015, 6:34 PM
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