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73: 93: 322: 53: 83: 103: 63: 113: 66: 173:). However, it appears that, for now, it applies only to about one third of AOL's customers; XFF information is not available for the other two thirds due to AOL's network infrastructure (which one knowledgable person characterized as "weird"). 371: 300: 381: 308: 356: 351: 288: 284: 346: 280: 361: 292: 169: 39: 366: 296: 440: 333: 56: 492: 21: 468: 463: 458: 339: 453: 448: 321: 17: 474: 147:
with almost every edit, and IPs tend to get reused frequently. This plays havoc with our blocking system. The
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that AOL would supply XFF information. This was enabled as of 13 July (
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enabled, semi-temporarily, on German Knowledge due to vandal attack.
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variables were added for the benefit of user-script writers. (
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djvulibre installed on wikis in the Korean yaseo cluster.
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Wikimania 2006 registration page disabled due to major
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Account creation on Japanese Knowledge briefly broken;
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E-mail notification for Meta-Wiki watchlists enabled.
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Contribute
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AOL
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bug 6806
DjVu
bug 6420
Special:Export
bug 6971
Special:Imagelist
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Ruby on Rails
stewards
Wiki-Mercenaries

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