Re: Steward-l email doing nothing to resolve problem
From the email forwarded to me asking for help that is the gist of was was reported to the person unable to edit. If that is not true I don't have any other information of what was done to help the editor. And the fact that _he_ emailed me, still unable to edit is a good reason to take the report that nothing was done for him at face value.
Frankly how to handle these anticipated problems _should_ have been decided in concert with the decision to implement of this feature. I had thought they had been. Obvoiusly the feature was rolled out without addressing the concerns that people expressed over this during the intial discussion of such a feature. That should not have happened but here we are.
Birgitte SB
--- On Tue, 9/16/08, Elisabeth Anderl spacebirdy@gmail.com wrote:
From: Elisabeth Anderl spacebirdy@gmail.com Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] Global blocking needs to be halted for now To: birgitte_sb@yahoo.com, "Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List" foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Date: Tuesday, September 16, 2008, 9:17 AM Hello, such claims "they did nothing" should have a ground, imho...
DerHexer blocked that range after it had been used for massive cross-wiki vandalism, it had been blocked on en.wiki before and after sul was available the user abused it to vandalize from other projects. The other user had a block exemption on en.wiki, which did not work after a global block and contacted DerHexer, we opened a requesthttps://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15288at bugzilla that it should work for global blocks too, which was fixed the next day.
@global group IP-block-exemption, that should _not_ be decided by stewards, but by the community, who should assign it, should it overwrite a local block too, etc. I suggest You better open a discussion for that on Meta instead on the mailinglist, because then the group might actually be created. Thanks.
E.
2008/9/14 Birgitte SB birgitte_sb@yahoo.com
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