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== What does that mean? == | == What does that mean? == | ||
WMF Volunteers spending a great deal of time fighting vandalism, including the blocking of individual IP addresses and ranges of IP address. To centralise this work, the Wikimedia Foundation has create a central database with a very low false positive rate. The bot draws upon that database and uses it to combat spam on this wiki. | WMF Volunteers spending a great deal of time fighting vandalism, including the blocking of individual IP addresses and ranges of IP address. To centralise this work, the Wikimedia Foundation has create a central database with a very low false positive rate. The bot draws upon that database and uses it to combat the increasing level of spam on this wiki. | ||
== But I'm not a vandal! == | == But I'm not a vandal! == | ||
If you've been caught up in a block and | If you've been caught up in a block and this feel this is unfair, try contacting {{irc|wikimedia-uk}} (a response may not be immediate outside of office hours). Over 6 million IP addresses will eventually be blocked under this program, so all requests will be treated in good faith. | ||
Revision as of 15:35, 26 March 2014
This is a bot operated by User:Jarry1250 to import the Wikimedia wikis' global block list to this wiki.
What does that mean?
WMF Volunteers spending a great deal of time fighting vandalism, including the blocking of individual IP addresses and ranges of IP address. To centralise this work, the Wikimedia Foundation has create a central database with a very low false positive rate. The bot draws upon that database and uses it to combat the increasing level of spam on this wiki.
But I'm not a vandal!
If you've been caught up in a block and this feel this is unfair, try contacting irc:wikimedia-uk connect (a response may not be immediate outside of office hours). Over 6 million IP addresses will eventually be blocked under this program, so all requests will be treated in good faith.