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I don't know how to get unbanned from the debian wiki. I created accounts too quickly? (lemmy.world)
submitted 11 months ago by to c/linux4noobs@programming.dev
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I don't know how to get unbanned. I created an account with a wrong username (with typo) a few nights ago, tried again, and failed, gave up. Tried to create an account with a different name/email and got this. Unsure how long this will take to cool off. It said something about "send a mail to explain why you're creating accounts" before It just shows everything as this.

The only bloody reason I wanted to create an account was to see if I could set some kind of dark mode, looking at that wiki makes me feel like I'm starting into a lightbulb, but I'm running debian, and wanted to get info on the init system in use in debian.

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[–] 20 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (3 children)

Debian, like Wikipedia, uses MediaWiki. On MediaWikis, Dark Reader will let you view a wiki without needing to create an account and set the thing to dark mode.

EDIT:

https://wiki.debian.org/DebianWiki/FAQ

Q: Access to wiki.debian.org is blocked with 403 Forbidden

Please mail wiki@debian.org with your IP address.

Might try that.

EDIT2: Sorry, take it back about using MediaWiki. Debian uses MoinMoin. But it still does work with Dark Reader.

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  • [–] [S] 14 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    thank you for everything, you're fixing both my problems.

    Also, ironically, the fucking FAQ with the 403 forbidden solution is behind the goddamn 403, but thanks to you, at least I have the email address.

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    • [–] 6 points 11 months ago (5 children)

    Do you have a VPN? I can access it from Mullvad Dublin but get the Forbidden message with Mullvad Amsterdam.

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  • [–] 4 points 11 months ago (3 children)

    It's annoying how many sites do this.

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  • [–] 1 point 11 months ago (2 children)

    They usually do it because of prior abuse by other VPN customers.

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  • [–] 6 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    So they ban that IP or range of IPs and the offender moves to a different IP in a matter of seconds meanwhile the people still trying to legitimately access the site from that original IP can get fucked. Doesn't seem like it solves anything much to me.

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  • [–] 1 point 11 months ago

    VPN providers don't have unlimited IPs. At some point, you've blocked all the VPN IPs, and suddenly it gets much harder to abuse the site.

    If this doesn't solve anything in your eyes, what exactly should a provider do when they're getting hammered by VPN IPs? Should they tell their customers "sorry our service is offline, but there might be people legitimately attempting to access it through the IPs that are DDoSing us"?

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