WikiProject:Junking bots

Currently we observe very special spam attacs -- only IPs -- that place single nonsense words in existing pages.

John stated that we are not the only wiki that ist annoyed, they are testing the terrain before putting in real spam, said Felix.

I find it useful to block them for some days or weeks for the first. If we see them spamming again we can than block them even longer.

If you are blocked

If your, as a normal user, feel blocked due to a blocked IP, please contact one of the administrators. They will unblock you.

Lists of blocked IPs

Maybe we should make blocked IPs visible and describe why we have blocked them.

MediaWiki has two build-in functions for keeping track of blocking actions on IPs and user accounts

• the Special:Ipblocklist shows the current blocked ones (reach,expiry time)
• the block log shows each particular block action

This is the list of IPs blocked by User:Peu as a starting point.

I'm lookung on my blocking policy marking blocking durations --Wolf | talk 03:41, 7 October 2007 (EDT)

• 1d = 1 day
• 1w = 1 week
• 1m = 1 month

here the list:

• Template:Blocked 3d - Whois:59.151.53.100
• Template:Blocked 3m - Whois:60.190.223.77
• Template:Blocked 1d
• Template:Blocked 1d
• Template:Blocked 3m
• Template:Blocked 3d
• Template:Blocked
• Template:Blocked
• Template:Blocked
• Template:Blocked
• Template:Blocked
• Template:Blocked
• Template:Blocked 3d
• Template:Blocked
• Template:Blocked
• Template:Blocked
• Template:Blocked 3d
• Template:Blocked
• Template:Blocked
• Template:Blocked
• Template:Blocked
• Template:Blocked
• Template:Blocked
• Template:Blocked
• Template:Blocked
• Template:Blocked 1m, 1m (anon only)
• Template:Blocked
• Template:Blocked
• Template:Blocked 3d
• Template:Blocked 1d, 3d
• Template:Blocked
• Template:Blocked
• Template:Blocked
• Template:Blocked
• Template:Blocked 1d, 3d
• Template:Blocked

Should we create IP-Pages?

Logged in users have their home spaces, why not bots=. We could protect IP-pages against anon contributions and elaborate the blocking policy for each IP like this:

• spammer
• useful contributions
• shared