Wikipedia Blocks Qatar Slashdot - 35 minutes ago GrumpySimon writes "Wikipedia has blocked the entire country of Qatar from editing pages. Whilst the ban is due to spam-abuse coming ...
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That's because Mediawiki software can only CheckUser for IPs and doesn't track other headers. It doesn't try to read a MAC address (anyone know how a site can do that? I've heard it needs Java or Shockwave).
Finally, they started doing some better CheckUser improvements....
FORUM WARNING [2] Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at /home2/wikipede/public_html/int042kj398.php:242) (Line: 0 of Unknown)