--- On Sun, 9/14/08, Alex <mrzmanwiki(a)gmail.com> wrote:
From: Alex <mrzmanwiki(a)gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] Global blocking needs to be halted for now
To: "Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List"
<foundation-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Date: Sunday, September 14, 2008, 11:32 AM
David Gerard wrote:
2008/9/14 Birgitte SB
<birgitte_sb(a)yahoo.com>om>:
> BTW I love how looking at the global block list
all the reasons are in english
shorthand with no links.
Wasn't it said during the discussion of enabling this
feature that the block reason would have links to a help
page in multiple languages for all the non-english speakers
that are being blocked.
{{sofixit}}
The answer to the original question is, of course,
ipblockexempt on a
per-user basis - this is precisely what
ipblockexempt
is for. This is
achieved by filing a bug on
bugzilla.mediawiki.org with a link to
community discussion supporting it, and pinging
the
devs as needed.
i.e., it's another {{sofixit}}
- d.
I could fix the issue for en.WS, but that is a bit shortsighted don't you think? This
is an issue affecting all wikis not just en.WS. And I doubt many people blocked elsewhere
can give admins information on how the issue was fixed for them on en.WP like this guy did
for me. Why was this feature rolled out without sending information on how to handle such
problems to the village pumps?
And how can I fix what other people choose to put in their block logs?? There should be a
link to a help page that is helpful to non-English people in the blocking reason. The
blocking reason and blocking admin name are the only unique information on the "You
do not have permission page".
Isn't this what [[Special:GlobalBlockWhitelist]]
is
for? If a global
block is causing problems on one project, it can be locally
disabled and
more targeted blocks, or softblocks, put in place if
necessary.
DerHexter forwarded this problem to the stewards mailing list. They did nothing to help
this guy so he asked me to unblock him locally. I unblocked the IP locally as that was
all I could do. If there is a global solution people are denying it in practice for some
reason that I don't know.
Birgitte SB