User talk:Jimbo Wales

I just cleaned this page up.

I want us to be very conservative about photo copyrights. We want to make sure that everything we do is clean and unassailable, not just in the legal courts, but in the courts of public opinion.

Someday, someone will write a negative article about us, and they might want to use the FUD that our encyclopedia is corrupted by copyright violations. We want to cut that criticism off from the start by being very careful about it.

--Jimbo

OK, here's what you have to do on the MySQL server to block a signed in user:

select user_id from user where user_name='<name of user to be blocked>';

insert into `ipblocks` (ipb_user,ipb_by,ipb_reason) values(<number from above>,1,"Vandalism");

I haven't checked if you can do this through the UI somehow. As for determining the IP, the CUR table stores either the user name or the IP address of a signed in user, so it's not in there. The server log should have it, if you can decipher it. --Eloquence 13:13 Feb 8, 2003 (UTC)

I think I got the ip. I hope I didn't screw up and get one of the good guys, but I checked several pages, and that ip number 18.56.0.30 seemed to be the first edit in each case. Someone this persistent may come back in another guise, though. --Jimbo Wales

That's M56-129-1.MIT.EDU - an MIT machine? Seems unlikely. Also the person is now back as "IHATENAZIPIGS". --Eloquence 13:31 Feb 8, 2003 (UTC)