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   Coralie Mercier (koalie@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 23-Oct-2025 07:58:06 JST Coralie Mercier

   I use #wikipedia daily and supported it financially many years because if I benefit I absolutely want to “give back” if I can. But a few years ago I became aware of how unfairly the cohort of maintainers behave. I continued to donate every now and then up till when I realized the management of this project was complicit so I drew the line.
   The other day I wanted to fix a typo, and that’s when I noticed I couldn’t!
   I have no idea what I did that triggered in 2023 a ban of 4 years and 1 month 🤨

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     Coralie Mercier (koalie@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 23-Oct-2025 07:58:05 JST Coralie Mercier

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     If anyone who follows me or sees this understands any of the data I screenshotted from #wikipedia and can explain or show me where to look or what, I would be grateful. I’ve tried to understand and it’s been a source of frustration.

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     Evan Prodromou (evan@cosocial.ca)'s status on Thursday, 23-Oct-2025 07:58:05 JST Evan Prodromou

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     @koalie you're block by IP address. The "colocation Web host" suggests that the IP block is used for CloudFlare hosting, which would mean it's usually bots, and not people, editing from that IP. Are you using a VPN or is there some other reason it would think you're dialing in from a data centre? Regardless, I think logging in with a real account should let you edit, regardless of your IP.

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     Evan Prodromou (evan@cosocial.ca)'s status on Thursday, 23-Oct-2025 10:46:38 JST Evan Prodromou

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     • Karl Dubost

     @koalie @karlcow I'm surprised! Do you often skip TPAC?

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     Coralie Mercier (koalie@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 23-Oct-2025 10:46:39 JST Coralie Mercier

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     • Evan Prodromou
     • Karl Dubost

     @karlcow yes it did work when I did, per a suggestion in reply (that maybe you can’t see)!

     https://mastodon.social/@koalie/115420358651776266

     PS; I’m not going to Kobe.

     @evan

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     Karl Dubost (karlcow@mastodon.cloud)'s status on Thursday, 23-Oct-2025 10:46:40 JST Karl Dubost

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     • Evan Prodromou

     @koalie does it work if you disable private relay? If yes tell me more or let's test together in Kobe. @evan

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     Coralie Mercier (koalie@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 23-Oct-2025 10:46:41 JST Coralie Mercier

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     • Evan Prodromou

     @evan as far as I know, no VPN but someone here just suggested that the iPhone “private relay” being enabled might be a cause. I am definitely logged in with my account, though and see the 3 notifications attached to it (none of them about being blocked, actually).

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     Coralie Mercier (koalie@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 23-Oct-2025 11:41:27 JST Coralie Mercier

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     • Evan Prodromou
     • Karl Dubost

     @evan no, I don’t. It will be the second TPAC I miss in 25 years! This year I will be taking my then-18-year-old to Japan the month following TPAC, as a birthday present, and so to keep a reasonable carbon footprint, I’ll attend TPAC remotely.
     @karlcow

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     Evan Prodromou (evan@cosocial.ca)'s status on Thursday, 23-Oct-2025 11:41:27 JST Evan Prodromou

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     • Karl Dubost

     @koalie @karlcow Amazing! I hope you enjoy the trip and I will see you online.