The Wikis rely heavily on IP blocking as a mechanism for blocking vandalism, spam, and abuse. But IP addresses are increasingly less useful as stable identifiers of an individual actor, and blocking IP addresses has unintended negative effects on good faith users who happen to share the same IP address as bad actors. The talk discusses approaches to improve the effectiveness of these mechanisms.

Temporary Accounts will be rolled out in the next few months on all projects. Learn about what they are, how they will impact you and what you need to do. This project is very much in development stages. We will be gathering feedback as much as disseminating information about the work.