You may also whitelist an IP for your wiki only at
[[Special:GlobalBlockWhitelist]]
Mike
-----Original Message-----
From: David Gerard [mailto:dgerard@gmail.com]
Sent: September 14, 2008 11:52 AM
To: birgitte_sb(a)yahoo.com; Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List
Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] Global blocking needs to be halted for now
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.