I am for that completely. We will need one global admin list, too.
On 1/31/08, David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com wrote:
I've just sent this to wikitech-l, but what I'm proposing is a *big* hammer, so needs lots of due consideration. Please pick holes in the idea.
- d.
---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com Date: 31 Jan 2008 10:18 Subject: Wikimedia-wide global blocking mechanism? To: Wikimedia developers wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org
Discussions on the checkuser list (which is Wikimedia-wide) suggest that an all-project blocking mechanism would be very useful in keeping our more persistent vandals from hopping from project to project, wreaking havoc. This happens quite a bit.
A variant of Wikia's regex block would be a likely candidate for a useful implementation.
One detail it would need (in some coder's Copious Free Time) would be an option to unblock a globally-blocked IP or range locally. (One use case would be a local ISP which has several good editors from a small project, but has open proxies or similar that are a source of vandalism on many other projects.)
Presumably such a global block would only be available to stewards, on due consideration.
Before anyone starts coding - what are the devs' thoughts on a global blocking mechanism? What could go badly wrong?
- d.
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