Look let me give a real-life example. Say you commit a crime in the US, if you were to escape to Mexico you would freely roam aaround because you have not done anything wrong there.
Each individual wiki is independent yes, but we need a level of communication among wikis. Like between fr.wikipedia and fr.wikibooks or en.wiktionary and simple.wikipedia, same language sister project.
- White Cat
On Fri, Apr 25, 2008 at 1:04 AM, Wily D wilydoppelganger@gmail.com wrote:
On Thu, Apr 24, 2008 at 2:52 PM, David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com wrote:
2008/4/24 Marcus Buck me@marcusbuck.org:
White Cat hett schreven:
Has there been any discussion on this matter? If a user is being
disruptive
on a wiki he or she will eventually end up getting blocked for it.
If the
same user decides to continue this disruption he was blocked for
on other
wikis, particularly sister projects, commons, meta and etc how
should he or
she be treated. I know every wiki is independent. But letting a disruptive user
become the
source of agony on many wikis seems like a problematic thing to
do.
That should be decided by the projects he or she is disrupting, shouldn't it? If they feel being disrupted, they will block, if not
they
won't. Where do you see problems with this way of handling it?
Depends on what the person is doing. I referred previously to how the main reason for global IP blocking is so as to deal with persistent cross-wiki vandals; many take to trying to harass people (e.g. blocking admins, previous wiki-foes) on other wikis, vandalising in their names, etc. (SUL helps with this, but many targets are not admins.) The cases I'm thinking of are bad editors who are sufficiently unambiguously vandalising and/or harassing that a steward could clearly act, for instance.
- d.
Indeed, I don't think White Cat's example is the purpose of this - this is for cases of clear-cut vandalism across wikis - Examples include the time I went and scrubbed "Wikipedia is Communism" off the Navajo Wikipedia on a couple dozen pages (including the main page!). A global block is needed in a case like that.
WilyD
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