[Foundation-l] Fwd: Wikimedia-wide global blocking mechanism?

[Brian McNeil]

I'm afraid there seems to be an assumption that people with Checkuser are
looking to apply their cultural norms to other wikis. This isn't the case,
and I suspect most of the other CheckUser people would oppose expanding this
idea of global blocking in that way.

It has now been nearly two weeks since I blocked an IP address on
en.wikinews for a year. Checkuser revealed a long history of Willy on Wheels
type usernames, all responsible for vandalism. When the same IP cropped up
on several wikis it seemed logical to do a cross-wiki block. To do the whole
nine yards is a mammoth task, and the people who have to do this are asking
for a tool to make it easier.

Yes, there is a concern that making this easy will make it occur more
frequently, but that is - I think - a risk worth taking.


Brian McNeil

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[mailto:foundation-l-bounces at lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Anders Wegge
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Sent: 31 January 2008 21:33
To: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List
Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] Fwd: Wikimedia-wide global blocking mechanism?

"David Gerard" <dgerard at gmail.com> writes:

> I've just sent this to wikitech-l, but what I'm proposing is a *big*
> hammer, so needs lots of due consideration. Please pick holes in the
> idea.

 * Any kind of centralization, will be perceived as unwanted influence
   on all or most of the projects that are not enwiki.

 * Really interesting intrawiki wheel wars. 

 * Conflicting policies between wikis.

 In short, a very bad idea.

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