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duncan at greatplains

May 6, 2008, 2:43 PM

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Prevent AutoBlocking

Hi,

I am having a problem with a user getting automatically blocked when
trying to edit a page. If I unblock them and they try to edit the page
again, they get blocked again. This user can edit other pages without
getting blocked. OpenProxy blocking is not enabled and autoblocking is
not enabled on any of our valid blocked users. I am running mediawiki
1.8.2. Anyone have any advice as to what may be causing this?

Thanks,
Duncan Cunningham

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ussray_00 at yahoo

May 8, 2008, 6:41 AM

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Re: Prevent AutoBlocking [In reply to]

What applications are you running?

Some kind of IDS or application firewall?

Russ

--- Duncan Cunningham <duncan[at]greatplains.net> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I am having a problem with a user getting
> automatically blocked when
> trying to edit a page. If I unblock them and they
> try to edit the page
> again, they get blocked again. This user can edit
> other pages without
> getting blocked. OpenProxy blocking is not enabled
> and autoblocking is
> not enabled on any of our valid blocked users. I am
> running mediawiki
> 1.8.2. Anyone have any advice as to what may be
> causing this?
>
> Thanks,
> Duncan Cunningham
>
> _______________________________________________
> MediaWiki-l mailing list
> MediaWiki-l[at]lists.wikimedia.org
>
https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
>



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duncan at greatplains

May 8, 2008, 9:44 AM

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Re: Prevent AutoBlocking [In reply to]

I am not sure what you are trying to get at with other applications
running. I don't have any IDS on the machine, and I am assuming the
machine is behind a firewall, but the firewall is not running on that
machine.

I guess something I should have mentioned early was the entry in the
ipblocklist:

Replaced usernames with ***

20:01, 7 May 2008, *** (Talk) blocked #11 (expires 20:01, 8 May 2008)
(unblock) (Autoblocked because your IP address has been recently used by
"***". The reason given for ***'s block is: "*Inserting unwanted changes*")

And user #11 is the same user that it claims recently used the ip address.

Duncan Cunningham

Russ Lavoy wrote:
> What applications are you running?
>
> Some kind of IDS or application firewall?
>
> Russ
>
> --- Duncan Cunningham <duncan[at]greatplains.net> wrote:
>
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I am having a problem with a user getting
>> automatically blocked when
>> trying to edit a page. If I unblock them and they
>> try to edit the page
>> again, they get blocked again. This user can edit
>> other pages without
>> getting blocked. OpenProxy blocking is not enabled
>> and autoblocking is
>> not enabled on any of our valid blocked users. I am
>> running mediawiki
>> 1.8.2. Anyone have any advice as to what may be
>> causing this?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Duncan Cunningham
>>
>> _______________________________________________
>> MediaWiki-l mailing list
>> MediaWiki-l[at]lists.wikimedia.org
>>
>>
> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
>
>
>
>
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emufarmers at gmail

May 8, 2008, 12:44 PM

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Re: Prevent AutoBlocking [In reply to]

When blocking, you have the option to disable the autoblock feature <
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Autoblock>; unfortunately, I don't
think that option was added until version 1.9. This is a good excuse to
upgrade.

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On Thu, May 8, 2008 at 12:44 PM, Duncan Cunningham <duncan[at]greatplains.net>
wrote:

> I am not sure what you are trying to get at with other applications
> running. I don't have any IDS on the machine, and I am assuming the
> machine is behind a firewall, but the firewall is not running on that
> machine.
>
> I guess something I should have mentioned early was the entry in the
> ipblocklist:
>
> Replaced usernames with ***
>
> 20:01, 7 May 2008, *** (Talk) blocked #11 (expires 20:01, 8 May 2008)
> (unblock) (Autoblocked because your IP address has been recently used by
> "***". The reason given for ***'s block is: "*Inserting unwanted
> changes*")
>
> And user #11 is the same user that it claims recently used the ip address.
>
> Duncan Cunningham
>
> Russ Lavoy wrote:
> > What applications are you running?
> >
> > Some kind of IDS or application firewall?
> >
> > Russ
> >
> > --- Duncan Cunningham <duncan[at]greatplains.net> wrote:
> >
> >
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> I am having a problem with a user getting
> >> automatically blocked when
> >> trying to edit a page. If I unblock them and they
> >> try to edit the page
> >> again, they get blocked again. This user can edit
> >> other pages without
> >> getting blocked. OpenProxy blocking is not enabled
> >> and autoblocking is
> >> not enabled on any of our valid blocked users. I am
> >> running mediawiki
> >> 1.8.2. Anyone have any advice as to what may be
> >> causing this?
> >>
> >> Thanks,
> >> Duncan Cunningham
> >>
> >> _______________________________________________
> >> MediaWiki-l mailing list
> >> MediaWiki-l[at]lists.wikimedia.org
> >>
> >>
> > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
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> > know-it-all with Yahoo! Mobile. Try it now.
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> >
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>
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duncan at greatplains

May 9, 2008, 1:35 PM

Post #5 of 6 (73 views)
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Re: Prevent AutoBlocking [In reply to]

First, when disabling autblocking, does it only disable autoblocking for
the user you are trying to block or is it a system wide change?

Second, how easy of a transition would it be to upgrade to 1.9? I am
relatively new to mediawiki, what would be the require steps to upgrade
from 1.8.2 to 1.9?


Duncan Cunningham

Benjamin Lees wrote:
> When blocking, you have the option to disable the autoblock feature <
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Autoblock>; unfortunately, I don't
> think that option was added until version 1.9. This is a good excuse to
> upgrade.
>
>


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emufarmers at gmail

May 9, 2008, 5:32 PM

Post #6 of 6 (73 views)
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Re: Prevent AutoBlocking [In reply to]

I'm referring to a checkbox that allows an administrator to choose whether
or not to enable autoblocking at the time of the block. I don't know of an
option for disabling autoblocking globally, although you could probably set
$wgAutoblockExpiry <
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:%24wgAutoblockExpiry> to 0 (or that
might make them indefinite; I'm not sure).

You should upgrade to the latest version. <
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Upgrading>

--
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On Fri, May 9, 2008 at 4:35 PM, Duncan Cunningham <duncan[at]greatplains.net>
wrote:

> First, when disabling autblocking, does it only disable autoblocking for
> the user you are trying to block or is it a system wide change?
>
> Second, how easy of a transition would it be to upgrade to 1.9? I am
> relatively new to mediawiki, what would be the require steps to upgrade
> from 1.8.2 to 1.9?
>
>
> Duncan Cunningham
>
> Benjamin Lees wrote:
> > When blocking, you have the option to disable the autoblock feature <
> > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Autoblock>; unfortunately, I
> don't
> > think that option was added until version 1.9. This is a good excuse to
> > upgrade.
> >
> >
>
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