Community Wishlist Survey 2022/Admins and patrollers/Allow global whitelisting of IPs subject to global rangeblocks

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Allow global whitelisting of IPs subject to global rangeblocks

• Problem: Several requests for unblock cannot be handled in due time because of providers/tech depths of different organization mixing up networks which could legitimately edit the wikis with farms with open proxies, spam sources, etc. A quite common case are, also, private proxies on VPS or reverse proxies from different organizations hosted in third-party farms.
• Proposed solution: create a Special:GlobalBlockWhitelist page where a global block can be revoked for a certain IP or subnet falling in a blocked range
• Who would benefit: dozens of users caught by global blocks
• More comments:
• Phabricator tickets: phab:T42439
• Proposer: Vituzzu (talk) 10:44, 20 January 2022 (UTC)

Discussion

• Why is this an actual issue? --Izno (talk) 05:40, 21 January 2022 (UTC)

  Due to the number of duplicates it may be a issue to consider. GZWDer (talk) 10:56, 21 January 2022 (UTC)

  The issue? Huge administrative overhead that stewards cannot bear. A quick example: a German free WiFi sharing project is routed through a series of proxies hosted in a bunch of blocked /16, an user asked us to be unblocked, so for each of these blocks I had to replace a single block with 15 blocks. Vituzzu (talk) 16:03, 22 January 2022 (UTC)

  @Vituzzu: so that IP that was unblocked - was it not actually part of a proxy farm, or was the original block just overly aggressive? — xaosflux ^Talk 23:55, 25 January 2022 (UTC)

  I don't think so in that specific case, but that was just a simple example. I've seen countless private VPS, someone sharing the office with LTAs, etc. Vituzzu (talk) 11:45, 26 January 2022 (UTC)

• This seems like a generally useful and interesting challenge -- overlapping passlists + blocklists -- and a practical set of tasks that needs it. –SJ talk  23:09, 23 January 2022 (UTC)
• If this is implemented, please use "allowlist" or similar for wording per mw:Inclusive language. EpicPupper (talk) 22:28, 28 January 2022 (UTC)

Voting

•  Support —The Editor's Apprentice (talk) 18:59, 28 January 2022 (UTC)
•  Support —MarcoAurelio (talk) 19:42, 28 January 2022 (UTC)
•  Support Stryn (talk) 20:29, 28 January 2022 (UTC)
•  Support Make sense. I will say let meta sysops to access it too will be helpful as CAT:RFU on meta is always filled with such requests. Camouflaged Mirage (talk) 07:57, 29 January 2022 (UTC)
•  Support This is sometimes also an issue on wikis (like the Dutch Wikipedia) where smaller ranges are inadvertently caught in larger (local) range blocks (unfortunately, locally in our case). A possible extension (once this could be stable... ) could thus be considered. Daniuu (talk) 11:13, 29 January 2022 (UTC)
•  Support--Liuxinyu970226 (talk) 11:43, 29 January 2022 (UTC)
•  Support Aca (talk) 12:01, 29 January 2022 (UTC)
•  Support --Base (talk) 12:34, 29 January 2022 (UTC)
•  Support Whitelisting of small IP ranges is a good idea. Thingofme (talk) 13:56, 29 January 2022 (UTC)
•  Support —— Eric Liu_（Talk） 18:18, 29 January 2022 (UTC)
•  Support. --Mykola7 (talk) 22:42, 29 January 2022 (UTC)
•  Support Given local whitelists already exist. ~~~~
  User:1234qwer1234qwer4 (talk) 23:43, 29 January 2022 (UTC)

  Good point I forgot mentioning! Vituzzu (talk) 09:54, 4 February 2022 (UTC)

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