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From: Andrew Garrett <andrew(a)epstone.net>
Date: Aug 21, 2008 4:17 PM
Subject: [Wikitech-l] Global Blocking
To: Wikimedia developers <wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Hi, all,
I'm pleased to announce that Tim has just enabled the Global Blocking
extension on all Wikimedia projects.
The global blocking extension allows stewards to block IP addresses
and ranges on all of Wikimedia's projects, a tool which has been
much-needed to deal with cross-wiki vandalism and spam. Policies for
use of global blocking were discussed on meta, and are presently
located at <http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Global_blocking>. Global
blocks are not currently applied on meta, so that they may be appealed
there.
While the code has been quite thoroughly checked, any bugs should be
reported at bugzilla - a 'GlobalBlocking' component exists under the
'Extensions' product.
--
Andrew Garrett
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From: Gerard Meijssen <gerard.meijssen(a)gmail.com>
Date: Wed, Aug 13, 2008 at 12:08 PM
Subject: Re:
To: Mohsen Salek <mohsensalek(a)gmail.com>
Hoi,
You will have noticed that even though for all intends and purposes a
project like Wikinews is to be applauded for the Farsi community, I have not
changed the status of the proposal to "eligible". The problem I have is that
the fa code is ambiguous and I have informed my fellow members of the
language committee that as far as I am concerned the code for a new project
in Farsi should be "pes". The reason for this is that fa or fas has been
made a macro language, this macro language includes Dari or "prs".
Now in the language committee there are some who disagree with me. I told
them that I will not change projects administratively unless the codes used
are unambiguous. As I am not the only member of the language committee,
those members who disagree with me could have changed the status..
So the situation is:
- I am in full support of a Farsi Wikinews project
- There is a situation with the code used for Farsi
I am interested to learn what you think of this impasse.
NB Farsi is not the only language that has this problem..
Thanks,
GerardM
On Wed, Aug 13, 2008 at 7:03 AM, Mohsen Salek <mohsensalek(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> hi Gerard
> i am mardetanha <http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Mardetanha> also you
> may know me from meta.
> As matter of fact i want you to check my request here
> <http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Requests_for_new_languages/Wikinews_Persian>
> .
>
> I have talked to community and we are ready to have our wikinews .
>
> Thanks in advance
> mohsen
>
>