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Apologies

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@Ivanvector sorry for committing what was regarded as "forumshopping". Was under the impression that the ongoing issues made it fair given no adjudication at the SPI had been carried out due to the backlog there. Thank you however for looking into the issue, it's appreciated. Rambling Rambler (talk) 11:32, 19 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

IP range making disruptive edits

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Hello Mr. Ivanvector, your name sounded familiar from this category because I am facing one of your range blocks, but thats the topic for another day.

I am here because I couldn't find the proper place to report an IP range issue. The following range appears to have a long history of persistent vandalism. Each time, its a different IP address but the same type of edits targeting similar pages, which makes it difficult to track and report individually:

You can find more of it in the revision histories of Chief of the Army Staff (Pakistan) and Director-General of Inter-Services Intelligence. Each instance comes from a slightly different IP within the same range and involves the same kind of disruptive edits. Can you take an action on this or point me to the proper place to report it. Thanks -𝘼𝓷𝓳𝓪𝓷𝓐 𝙇𝓪𝓻𝙠𝓐 𝔱𝔞𝔩𝔨 12:16, 22 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Quick thanks

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I didn't know I had done that at RSN. Thank you for correcting it. - Walter Ego 14:33, 29 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@Roxy the dog: no worries, just thought I should ping you for awareness. The edit conflict detection on busy pages seems to have been broken for a while now. Ivanvector (Talk/Edits) 14:35, 29 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Guide to temporary accounts

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Hello, Ivanvector. This message is being sent to remind you of significant upcoming changes regarding logged-out editing.

Starting 4 November, logged-out editors will no longer have their IP address publicly displayed. Instead, they will have a temporary account (TA) associated with their edits. Users with some extended rights like administrators and CheckUsers, as well as users with the temporary account IP viewer (TAIV) user right will still be able to reveal temporary users' IP addresses and all contributions made by temporary accounts from a specific IP address or range.

How do temporary accounts work?

Editing from a temporary account
  • When a logged-out user completes an edit or a logged action for the first time, a cookie will be set in this user's browser and a temporary account tied with this cookie will be automatically created for them. This account's name will follow the pattern: ~2025-12345-67 (a tilde, year of creation, a number split into units of 5).
  • All subsequent actions by the temporary account user will be attributed to this username. The cookie will expire 90 days after its creation. As long as it exists, all edits made from this device will be attributed to this temporary account. It will be the same account even if the IP address changes, unless the user clears their cookies or uses a different device or web browser.
  • A record of the IP address used at the time of each edit will be stored for 90 days after the edit. Users with the temporary account IP viewer (TAIV) user right will be able to see the underlying IP addresses.
  • As a measure against vandalism, there are two limitations on the creation of temporary accounts:
    • There has to be a minimum of 10 minutes between subsequent temporary account creations from the same IP (or /64 range in case of IPv6).
    • There can be a maximum of 6 temporary accounts created from an IP (or /64 range) within a period of 24 hours.

Temporary account IP viewer user right

How to enable IP Reveal

Impact for administrators

  • It will be possible to block many abusers by just blocking their temporary accounts. A blocked person won't be able to create new temporary accounts quickly if the admin selects the autoblock option.
  • It will still be possible to block an IP address or IP range.
  • Temporary accounts will not be retroactively applied to contributions made before the deployment. On Special:Contributions, you will be able to see existing IP user contributions, but not new contributions made by temporary accounts on that IP address. Instead, you should use Special:IPContributions for this (see a video about IPContributions in a gallery below).

Rules about IP information disclosure

  • Publicizing an IP address gained through TAIV access is generally not allowed (e.g. ~2025-12345-67 previously edited as 192.0.2.1 or ~2025-12345-67's IP address is 192.0.2.1).
  • Publicly linking a TA to another TA is allowed if "reasonably believed to be necessary". (e.g. ~2025-12345-67 and ~2025-12345-68 are likely the same person, so I am counting their reverts together toward 3RR, but not Hey ~2025-12345-68, you did some good editing as ~2025-12345-67)
  • See Wikipedia:Temporary account IP viewer § What can and can't be said for more detailed guidelines.

Useful tools for patrollers

  • It is possible to view if a user has opted-in to view temporary account IPs via the User Info card, available in Preferences → Appearance → Advanced options → Tick Enable the user info card
    • This feature also makes it possible for anyone to see the approximate count of temporary accounts active on the same IP address range.
  • Special:IPContributions allows viewing all edits and temporary accounts connected to a specific IP address or IP range.
  • Similarly, Special:GlobalContributions supports global search for a given temporary account's activity.
  • The auto-reveal feature (see video below) allows users with the right permissions to automatically reveal all IP addresses for a limited time window.

Videos

  • How to use Special:IPContributions
  • How automatic IP reveal works
  • How to use IP Info
  • How to use User Info

Further information and discussion

Most of this message was written by Mz7 (source). Thanks, 🎃 SGrabarczuk (WMF) (talk) 02:48, 31 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

N1 rocket case

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I looked at the history, and I see that the personal attacks were worse than I expected. I have closed the DRN case. Thank you for the notification. Robert McClenon (talk) 17:56, 2 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Dear @Ivanvector, you asked me to ping you in case his inappropriate behaviour continues.
Well, even while banned it continues: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Tito_Jugoslavchenko#c-Tito_Jugoslavchenko-20251102230600-NoTimeForUs-20251102202500 NoTimeForUs (talk) 23:14, 2 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]
@NoTimeForUs: thanks for the heads-up. I was watching them do it in real time, and they are now blocked indefinitely and cannot edit their talk page. I doubt they will be bothering you any more. Ivanvector (Talk/Edits) 23:23, 2 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Administrators' newsletter – November 2025

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