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Year: 2006 Week:28 Nr.:33 - Tech flash
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An independent internal news bulletin
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=== Technical news ===
!!!-***Bug 550 is going to be fixed soon***-!!!
Tim Starling announced on the mailing list that very soon, probably within 24
hours, the way the block function works will change.
Most important changes;
*Allow blocks on anonymous users only (bug 550)
**-> this means that registered users who are using that ip address still can
edit, like users who on the network of a school or need to use the proxy of
there ISP
* Allow or disallow account creation from blocked IP addresses on a per-block
basis
Here you can see a screenshot form the new interface;
*http://noc.wikimedia.org/~tstarling/SpecialBlockip.png
For more information read the posting by Tim Starling;
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.science.linguistics.wikipedia.misc/27667/focu…
And even more reading;
http://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=550
Lets rejoice ourselves, spread the news to all sysops on all +600 Wikis and
celebrated this this wonderful day!
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Editor(s): Walter
E-mail: ihavenews AT wikizine DOT org
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