Board Thread:DC Wiki Discussion/@comment-1738746-20151207230708/@comment-1738746-20151213033011

Miscat wrote: In the mean time, I believe it is possible to lock pages of frequent vandalism and also possibly ban anons by their IP address (Its displayed if you select them, I believe). If it becomes a problem you can remove anon access for a while and then give it back. I believe people can be mature about this. Few comments on why those suggestions won't work or are currently being used and aren't that effective: the pages being targeted at the moment are random. It's not even high traffic pages or the same ones being repeatedly targeted, at one point even a category page got vandalised. Of course every anon that vandalises I issue an IP block for, but many that vandalise utilise proxies or VPNs to change their IP and therefore get around the block. On top of this, many people have dynamic IP addresses which can allow for further circumventing of IP blocks depending on how frequently they change.

As for removing access temporarily, I know that won't work as that's currently what got us into this situation. Anon editing was disabled on our wiki for a long time (over a year I think), yet in the first week that it got restored, we see this. It demonstrates that a period of blocking does nothing to deter them, and it additionally blocks any helpful edits we could have gotten during that time too. I also refer back to my previous comment about the novelty of the situation- if this is actually what's happening, your proposed solution may make things worse.