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Bug 72501 - Need a way for trusted OAuth apps to make edits for from blocked IPs
Need a way for trusted OAuth apps to make edits for from blocked IPs
Status: NEW
Product: MediaWiki extensions
Classification: Unclassified
OAuth (Other open bugs)
unspecified
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: Unprioritized enhancement (vote)
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Assigned To: Nobody - You can work on this!
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Reported: 2014-10-24 22:47 UTC by Sage Ross
Modified: 2014-10-24 22:47 UTC (History)
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Description Sage Ross 2014-10-24 22:47:18 UTC 
In general, Amazon Web Services and other cloud services get blocked on Wikipedia and other wikis. (This is because they have traditionally been used by spammers, and there have been few to no legitimate edits coming from them.)

This means that legitimate OAuth apps that make edits can't be run on AWS (including Heroku, which was the platform my team was developing our app on before we ran into this problem). Perhaps approved OAuth apps (or some subset that have limited potential for abuse) could make edits with already-existing user accounts even from blocked IPs?
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