I'm afraid there seems to be an assumption that people with Checkuser are looking to apply their cultural norms to other wikis. This isn't the case, and I suspect most of the other CheckUser people would oppose expanding this idea of global blocking in that way.
It has now been nearly two weeks since I blocked an IP address on en.wikinews for a year. Checkuser revealed a long history of Willy on Wheels type usernames, all responsible for vandalism. When the same IP cropped up on several wikis it seemed logical to do a cross-wiki block. To do the whole nine yards is a mammoth task, and the people who have to do this are asking for a tool to make it easier.
Yes, there is a concern that making this easy will make it occur more frequently, but that is - I think - a risk worth taking.
Brian McNeil
-----Original Message----- From: foundation-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org [mailto:foundation-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Anders Wegge Jakobsen Sent: 31 January 2008 21:33 To: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] Fwd: Wikimedia-wide global blocking mechanism?
"David Gerard" dgerard@gmail.com writes:
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.
* Any kind of centralization, will be perceived as unwanted influence on all or most of the projects that are not enwiki.
* Really interesting intrawiki wheel wars.
* Conflicting policies between wikis.
In short, a very bad idea.