First, when disabling autblocking, does it only disable autoblocking for the user you are trying to block or is it a system wide change?
Second, how easy of a transition would it be to upgrade to 1.9? I am relatively new to mediawiki, what would be the require steps to upgrade from 1.8.2 to 1.9?
Duncan Cunningham
Benjamin Lees wrote:
When blocking, you have the option to disable the autoblock feature < http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Autoblock%3E; unfortunately, I don't think that option was added until version 1.9. This is a good excuse to upgrade.