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[Wikimedia-l] Re: Open proxies and IP blocking
I have not further commented because I did not feel I could help further
at this point. But I wanted to point out that the issue is still on my
"concerns" list :)

I am looking forward to read your findings when process is completed.

Flo

Le 12/05/2022 à 01:02, Niharika Kohli a écrit :
> Hi Butch,
>
> Thanks for your suggestions. On our end, the Wikimedia Foundation
> Product department is currently undertaking stakeholder discussions in
> all the areas you mentioned to understand the problem from all
> different perspectives. As we go through this process we are also
> looking at potential technical solutions that would reduce some of the
> pain points that have been brought up both here and on the talk page.
> There are some existing recommendations on this mailing list and the
> meta page that are good starting points for these discussions.
> We will be summarizing our findings and sharing them on this list and
> the talk page once we have completed this process. If anyone
> has direct feedback, my inbox is always open.
>
> Thanks!
>
>
>
> On Sat, May 7, 2022 at 9:59 PM <bustrias@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hello Everyone,
>
> Let me suggest three things:
>
> 1. For Outreach events, campaigns, GLAM events that conduct new
> user training and editathons, the Foundation Programs Team
> (https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Campaigns/Foundation_Programs_Team)
> should proactively coordinate with event organizers and/or
> foundation grant applicants and offer assistance to link them with
> administrators to grant IP exemptions or account creation / event
> organizer rights.
>
> 2. For WMF Movement Communications Team and Foundation Product
> Development Team to conduct stakeholder discussions (end users,
> event organizers, active editors) including this mailing list,
> talk pages, virtual / video conferences and come up with a
> thorough document summarizing the feedbacks. We should not end
> decisions on Talk pages and mailing list alone.
>
> 3. For the technology team & tech community to come up with an
> update on the 18 year old IP block policy that is target bad faith
> editors and balancing it with middle to low income communities
> (Africa, South and Southeast Asia, Pacific Islands, South America)
> with shared internet infrastructure such as mobile data/ school
> internet connections.
>
> Thanks.
>
>
> Kind regards,
>
> Butch
> Southeast Asia
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