Message: 7 Date: Mon, 01 Sep 2003 12:08:52 +1000 From: Tim Starling ts4294967296@hotmail.com Subject: [WikiEN-l] Re: Michael again *sigh* To: wikien-l@wikipedia.org Message-ID: 3F52AA34.7010109@hotmail.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed
Anthere asked:
Will this be working on any wikipedia as well ?
That's a very good question. Currently the feature can't be turned on and off easily, but if you want I can easily fix it up so that it can be.
-- Tim Starling <tstarlingphysicsunimelbeduau>
No. Don't bother. I am pretty sure that if the french wikipedia was asked, the majority of participants would agree with that feature. Very useful tool to shut up opposition :-) ( <- there is a smiley, that means it is said with gentle irony)
But please, when this will be made live on international wikipedias, could you indicate it on the main list ?
It is a bit weird to say so, but I have not been blocked for at least 6 months, so I do not quite know what is right now written as a message to the blocked person trying to edit :-) ( <- this just mean I have not been vandalizing wikipedia enough recently, I promise to make some effort to do so very soon in the near future)
An ip was blocked on the fr wiki a couple of days ago, after two poor edits on the main page ( <- I mean newbie vandalism).
He apparently had to struggle to find somewhere the email address of a sysop to be able to complain of his treatment. The sysop then send the complaint to the ML, where his message was blocked because sent from an unusual email address non registered by the sysop. I discovered the blocked email some hours later and then authorized it. It then took a couple of hours more for the user to receive an answer and explanation for the blocking from us. Come to think of it, I am not sure someone thought of unblocking the ip ...:-) (<- This is meant to be a joke, I am sure the blocking sysop thought of doing so)
If that had happened when I was on holidays, the message would have been unblocked possibly three weeks later :-((( ( <- I am serious here. In this case Youssef was the recipient, but if the blocked person had wrote to the ML directly, who would have authorized his message ?).
I know you are all thinking of Michael here, and I acknowledge this concern, but Michael is not the only one who gets blocked.
could it be possible that a blocked person (an ip or a loggued in user) be offered the way to communicate ?
Either by offering a direct link to the mailing list, where the message would be recognised and could automatically get through ? Or could the banned person have no right to edit anything but one page where she could voice her concern ? Perhaps her user page or histalk page ?
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