The "Effects of being blocked" section of the
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Blocking_policy
page, states that "users can still see all Wikipedia pages", Which might be interpreted as looking at pages is OK. Further down in that section however, it states:
"There is an internal autoblock expiry time variable, which is set to 24 hours, meaning that when a username is blocked indefinitely, their IP will be automatically unblocked 24 hours after they last accessed a page."
This refers just to the "access" of a page, for an indefinite block. Now was I blocked "indefinitely" rather than "The duration of the block depends on the expiry time that was entered at the time of the block"?
-- thanx, Silverback
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I just accessed the archives for this list, does anyone know it autoblock increments the time for this also? The address is mail.wikimedia.org/pipermail/...
-- thanx, Silverback
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The "User is blocked" page that gets returned when I try to edit, states that reading of pages is allowed. yet each time I read, or even when I just access the blocked list, the time at which my block expires as shown by the
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Ipblocklist
page pushes out the 24 hour expiration, so it is not OK to read, even the blocklist page the the documentation refers one to.
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actionforum@comcast.net (actionforum@comcast.net) [050102 12:42]:
"There is an internal autoblock expiry time variable, which is set to 24 hours, meaning that when a username is blocked indefinitely, their IP will be automatically unblocked 24 hours after they last accessed a page." This refers just to the "access" of a page, for an indefinite block. Now was I blocked "indefinitely" rather than "The duration of the block depends on the expiry time that was entered at the time of the block"?
The autoblocker is currently playing up. This means the times on the blocked IP page are overzealous. At present, admins are occasionally going through Special:Ipblocklist and unblocking expired blocks by hand.
(Admins, please have a look and do this. Note that *indefinite* blocks are incorrectly showing as either the time of the block or the time you loaded the page - don't unblock these!)
- d.