Remi.bachelet wrote:
Hello all,
I'm running an academic wiki (under Mediawiki 1.8.2), and I have a banning problem: when I ban a user, all users with the same IP (ie. the whole student's residence) are banned.
On this wiki, new account creation is disabled and only registered users can view or post , so when I block an account.. it's blocked.
So is there a solution to ban an account without banning the IP associated with it? Upgrading to the latest version of Mediawiki? Changing the settings? Patching?
It tried the various existing options, to no avail, and the doc on this matter is not entirely clear on IP/vs. account ban http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Block_and_unblock
Thanks for your help!
Regards,
The blocking system of the last mediawiki versions allow you to disable autoblocks on the block. If it's not available on 1.8.2 you should update to the last mediawiki version (1.11).