On 01/02/2008, Brian McNeil brian.mcneil@wikinewsie.org wrote:
In any case I personally wouldn't have access to such a tool. I would have to justify application of a global block to a steward and have evidence from other checkusers that the IP was problematic on several wikis. Before anyone gets to that stage the IP will have been investigated. If it is a proxy for an entire country - as I say above - then a different approach may be required, and a far shorter block would be applied.
Yeah. Wide blocks - an ISP or a country *cough*Qatar*cough* - should be no more than a few minutes, just to stop vandalism in progress. Such blocks wouldn't be the sort of thing to be applied cross-wiki, I'd think.
- d.