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It is 11:29:12 on August 5, 2024, according to the server's time and date.

"Me getting attacked by a bunch of users" etc.

Has anyone passed this boring disruption on to the WMF? Is there any point in it? Before the proxying there were IPs and of course CU on the accounts has real information--I don't know if the lawyers and sleuths at the Foundation act on those things. Drmies (talk) 21:47, 1 August 2024 (UTC)

See also Wikipedia:Administrators'_noticeboard/Incidents#So_what_are_we_doing_about_that_IP. I have taken no action here other than blocking some proxies. --Yamla (talk) 21:48, 1 August 2024 (UTC)

I'm not seeing how this is a bureaucrat specific issue; is there something special that is needed from this team? — xaosflux ^Talk 23:26, 1 August 2024 (UTC)

@Xaosflux I think Drmies is asking if the issue can be raised to the WMF. NoobThreePointOh (talk) 23:28, 1 August 2024 (UTC)

The checkuser team (already mentioned) is under the auspices of arbcom, who has recurring meetings with WMF resources; the bureaucrat team has no such thing. So I'd suggest having the CU's escalate to arbcom if they need WMF support. — xaosflux ^Talk 23:41, 1 August 2024 (UTC)

Maybe Drmies posted here because the vandalism has spread to this board. Graham87 (talk) 07:38, 2 August 2024 (UTC)

I believe that at this point literally every single administrator and functionary has been, forcibly, made aware of this person's ridiculous and ignorant complaint dozens of times, owing to them spending several months making it thousands of times across every conceivable attack surface and every project on which it's possible for them to edit. There are only a couple ways for this to resolve: either they realize that nobody cares and it will never result in their unblock and they give up (extremely unlikely since they've already been told this hundreds of times), they get bored and stop, or we just figure out enough rangeblocks and edit filters that they have to spend two days figuring out a loophole to post their absurd thing and get reverted and blocked within 15 seconds. jp×g🗯️ 08:01, 2 August 2024 (UTC)

User:Xaosflux, I posted here because you guys are the highest of the highest and the best of the best, and I was hoping for...well I don't know. CU is really useless anyway; the CU data for the original account are clear and "real", but all these recent ones, it's just proxies. Drmies (talk) 14:31, 2 August 2024 (UTC)

Thanks for the note, the volunteer teams that will get most attention from WMF resources are Arbcom and the stewards. Our stewards team will block open proxies that are brought to our attention - even if they are 'only disrupting enwiki', and can work with Trust and Safety if there is an overwhelming attack. We do not aggressively block all peer-to-peer proxies, as they are often single nodes on dynamic addresses. There used to be an adminbot here that would block proxies locally, but it stopped doing so back in March (see also Wikipedia:Bots/Noticeboard#ST47ProxyBot). If there is still community support for such, another admin could spin up a replacement if the original operator no longer wants to do this. — xaosflux ^Talk 15:03, 2 August 2024 (UTC)