--- Dan Rosenthal swatjester@gmail.com wrote:
Yeah, it's not perfect, but it seems like it would be a good tool for stewards to have. Only thing is, I'm envisioning a scenario where a valid user with good contribs gets blocked, doesn't user meta, tries to get unblocked at his home project, but cannot because he's not locally blocked, and the user doesn't know how to get in touch with a steward (Because he doesn't know of this policy) or doesn't understand how to communicate with one. I don't think it's necessarily that big of a deal, but I think it will need a LOT of localization to be effective.
This is the key problem. I think that unless we are capable of notifing all wikis of about the workings of this process in a language they are proficient taking blocks Wikimedia wide will cause a lot of harm. Of course an opt-in system would be very workable.
Birgitte SB
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