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If you have never edited Wikipedia before and/or do not have an account, you may need to create one. This will normally allow you to edit despite the block on your IP address. If you are currently blocked from creating an account, and cannot create one elsewhere in the foreseeable future, consider requesting one at Wikipedia:Request an account.
Wikipedia policy on open proxies is clear: editing through them is blocked without exception once identified. While some users can use them to circumvent censorship or filters, they have been used far too many times by far too many blocked vandals for Wikipedians to assume good faith on their part. This includes Tor nodes. If your server has ...
A1: A block prevents a user account, an IP address, or a range of IP addresses from editing Wikipedia, either partially or entirely. Blocked users can still open, access, and read any article or page on Wikipedia; they just cannot modify or edit any pages that are restricted by the block.
If I have been blocked, how can I get unblocked? See Wikipedia:Appealing a block and Wikipedia:Guide to appealing blocks . If I made an account on Wikipedia on one IP address but opened it on another, would that create problems?
The blocked user writing an appropriate unblock request; The block has been discussed on the Administrators' noticeboard or the Administrators' noticeboard for incidents and you believe there is a consensus to unblock; The user has completed the standard offer; Administrators should not normally unblock users blocked in good faith by another ...
Okay. So my main Wikipedia account@Masierra2008 has been blocked, since I’m now using this account for substitute. I don’t get why admins block users and use obviously no sense when responding to me. I just want people to not block me so much. Yamla (can’t ping) did give me advice on what it was like to be blocked. Yamla was right.
“The simplest way to tell if you have been blocked by an Android user is to call,” Lavelle says. Just like with an iPhone, listen for it to be diverted to voicemail or play you a pre-recorded ...
An autoblock is an automatic block of an IP address.Autoblocks are the result of an attempt to edit Wikipedia from an IP address recently used by a blocked user. Each time a user edits Wikipedia, the IP address from which the edit was made is logged (this log is accessible only by a very small number of trusted users, called checkusers).