Aaron Adrignola wrote:
I appreciate your detailed explanation. If a page at
Meta could be created
to explain this and linked to from the edit summaries this would do much to
eliminate confusion amongst local administrators. I do have a concern,
however. I've checked the SUL statuses for many of these accounts blocked
locally and usually the local blocks only affect less than 20 wikis. What's
to say that a mischievous individual couldn't register at one of the other
700 wikis without blocks/autoblock in place and do the same thing? This
seems to be a problem in need of a technical solution rather than one that
creates the situation that prompted my original message. As it is, it seems
that even if local blocks for global locks are performed at Wikibooks (and
elsewhere), you are still going to need to do a CU regardless.
-- User:Adrignola
Autoblocking suppressed accounts (Bug 23114) is implemented
(r64982,r65184,r65185). It just needs to be reviewed and deployed.