Hello all,

The Wikimedia Foundation Anti-Harassment Tools team is continuing to talk with the Wikimedia community about adding a partial blocks function to Special:Block.1

No functionality will change for sitewide blocks. All existing blocks will remain in place and the ability to block users from the entire wiki will remain as-is.

In addition to sitewide blocks, a partial block would be the ability to block a user from:

1.

Editing one or more specific page(s) 2.

Editing all pages within one or more namespace(s) 3.

Uploading files 4.

Emailing other users

Alex Hollender, a User Experience designer at Wikimedia Foundation, has a second set of wireframe designs of Special:Block with partial block included. You can take a look at the wireframes and leave us your feedback on Meta.2

Please spread the word and forward this email to others (especially administrators) who might be interested in helping re-design Special:Block's layout. In particular, feedback is needed about the best ways to create a log that will work well with the existing administrator workflows.

1. https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_health_initiative/Per_user_page,_n...

2. https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Community_health_initiative/Per-user_pa...

For the Anti-Harassment Tools team,

Sydney Poore