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.
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.
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Alex (w:en:User:Mr.Z-man)