Talk:Requests for comment/CheckUser requirements
Add topicLatest comment: 9 years ago by Ле Лой in topic IP range
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Talk page for general discussion of the RFC and proposing new ideas.
UA thoughts
[edit]The ideas about improving the CU extension's handling of User Agents are pretty good. It may be worth noting that the linked UserAgentString.com does offer an API (http://useragentstring.com/pages/api.php), and although an in-house solution could be used this would reduce dev time a little.
As for forged UAs, I doubt it's going to be possible to do anything other than state that the provided UA is non-standard — TheresNoTime (talk • they/them) 14:15, 19 September 2016 (UTC)
IP range
[edit]It's a real shame we can't use the IP range calculator unless we perform a check beforehand, so I'd love to have it changed. Ле Лой (talk) 12:46, 1 October 2016 (UTC)
- @Ле Лой There's NativeForeigner's calculator which you can use.[http://www.nativeforeigner.com/calc/]
- And on en.wiki, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:IP_range_calculator ~ Doug Weller (talk) 13:34, 1 October 2016 (UTC)
- Thanks, I know, but after you get used to this one you open it semi-autmoatically even for non-CU-related things :D Ле Лой (talk) 22:11, 1 October 2016 (UTC)
- @Ле Лой The IP range calculator can be used just accessing Special:CheckUser. If it does not show, some JS might be hidding it. —MarcoAurelio (talk) 16:04, 1 October 2016 (UTC)