[02:16:42] 92 million images? good luck with that, Commons does that with structured Data instead.. [07:59:46] mutante, that's all? a lot of users come from a gateway so you permban the gateway? :-o [08:00:16] looks like simplistic and counterproductive approach to me. [08:12:11] grin: #wikimedia-ops:libera.chat [08:14:20] stemoc: but that is the point. it seems like commons' structured data is just wikidata duplicated. so I feel like it would be better to have that data over here and then also rendered there. [08:29:41] ban isn't specific to this channel. [15:13:38] grin: I am not banning anyone, just literally answering the "why" question [16:16:31] mutante, the problem is that the real question is not "why possibly" but "how on earth anyone thought that's a good idea", in a rather polite way ;-) [16:44:07] grin: it might be better to ask the real question [17:50:14] that ban is not global, it is only in this channel [17:50:59] AmandaNP: ^ they are talking about your ban *!*@2001:470:69fc:105:* in this channel [18:38:02] mutante, I have refrained from responding in a similar impolite way. Let's realise that it wasn't you, you have no idea and you cannot help. [20:54:55] grin: 65 users joining (or quiting) over 15 minutes on a regular basis seems like a spam network, even for a bridge for at least a chunk of them, just preparing to do an attack. We've had to protect our channels from things like this before. It wouldn't affect anyone with any sort of cloak. [20:55:02] danilo: thanks for the ping [21:07:15] AmandaNP++ [21:07:35] hmm? [21:08:21] at least I was annoyed by that spam. so I'm happy about the ban. [21:09:00] 👍 [22:09:42] grin: asking rhetorical questions like "who thought this was a good idea" is actually more impolite [22:09:53] and nobody can have the answer to it [22:10:17] and if we did it would not fix the issue. so let's get back to the actual issue I suggest