Wikipedia blocks 26 million users from the UK's largest mobile network operator

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by eeblockage • 4 years ago

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xeromal2• 4 years ago

It looks like they're blocked from editing wikipedia articles without an account or am I misunderstanding wikipedia's response?

Blocking anonymous editing from a range of IPs to combat malicious editing seems ok in my book since they allow alternative means.

CharlesW2• 4 years ago

That's how I read it as well, which would mean the headline above is very clickbaity.

Yamla: "You can, however, still edit while logged in with an account."

eeblockage4• 4 years ago

The problem is that all EE users are both blocked from editing and from directly creating an account.

wizee• 4 years ago

Though it sounds like the normal automated account creation flow is also blocked from that ISP. That could be more problematic and discourage editor account creation.

themitigating• 4 years ago

I thought they were blocked from viewing Wikipedia and this article title was created by the HN user.

It's clickbait and the user created his account only 30 mins ago just to post this.

mirages• 4 years ago

Clickbait title. Can still edit from an account. Only anonymous edits are blocked.

eeblockage4• 4 years ago

Creating accounts is blocked too, if you don't have one and you want to make an edit, you have to go through some manual appeal process to request someone creates an account for you.

josephcsible• 4 years ago

How else should vandals, spammers, etc. be dealt with when their ISP lets them hop at will throughout its entire IP space?

smcl3• 4 years ago

so I'd have to walk to my local library, almost a mile away, to make an edit

Or you'd walk there, set up an account once and edit away to your heart's content.

denton-scratch• 4 years ago

Mobile wikipedia editors annoy me. They tend to make mis-spelled edits (it's hard to edit on a mobile, and predictive text also screws things up). And it seems to me that mobile editors tend not to bother with an edit summary.

Adding 1,500 characters to an article with no edit summary pisses me off. Especially if the additions are sprinkled all over the article. And especially especially, if the edit also involves removing material.

I often see edit summaries of the form "I added information". These often seem to be vandalism. I don't think any developer would add a commit with a message starting with "I ...". If I see such an edit summary, I usually take a closer look.

Wikipedia blocks 26 million users from the UK's largest mobile network operator

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