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(a)gmail.com> wrote:
From: Elisabeth Anderl <spacebirdy(a)gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] Global blocking needs to be halted for now
To: birgitte_sb(a)yahoo.com, "Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List"
<foundation-l(a)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
request<https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15288>at
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(a)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
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