Last modified: 2006-11-29 06:01:58 UTC
Since I respond to a large number of requests for unblocking at en.wp, I'm quite familiar with this problem: one vandal gets blocked on AOL, and three or four legitimate editors are hit with the ensuing autoblocks. Perhaps it would be wise to have the autoblocker ignore some or all of the main AOL IP ranges, such as 207.200.116.0/23, 195.93.0.0/17, and 64.12.96.0/19. Would save a lot of collateral damage.
I'm switching this to be more general. We don't want it specific to AOL.
Note that you can disable autoblocking for a specific block using a checkbox.
That assumes I'm blocking an IP address, though -- without going to the trouble of getting a checkuser, there's no way for me to tell what particular IP addresses any given username is connecting through.
Created attachment 2686 [details] Proposed patch I've tested the patch, which is fairly straightforward, but I haven't done much of anything with blocks before, so I'm wary of committing. Anyone want to review?
This is best off configurable as an interface message. I'm going to work on it later tonight.
Fixed in r17847
Does [[MediaWiki:Autoblock whitelist]] support commenting? It'd nice to be able to write WHOIS info or contact details, links etc next to each entry.
Any line that doesn't start with a * is ignored.
