Not to mention that we have more than just the Wikipedia project! And those projects are also in many languages! There are 708 wikis (at my last count), and most of them are "small wikis" which would benefit most from the ability to global block when needed. Mike.lifeguard -----Original Message----- From: Brian McNeil [mailto:brian.mcneil@wikinewsie.org] Sent: April 23, 2008 8:21 AM To: 'Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List' Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] Global Blocking I'll vouch for David's comment here. A noticeable percentage of Checkuser time is being used catching vandals as they project hop. Vandal 2.0 has seen the advertising blurb that we have over 250 languages. Brian McNeil -----Original Message----- From: foundation-l-bounces(a)lists.wikimedia.org [mailto:foundation-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of David Gerard Sent: 22 April 2008 17:25 To: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] Global Blocking On 22/04/2008, Marcos Melendez <mtmelendez(a)hotmail.com> wrote: all users about an ongoing discussion on enabling Global Blocking, a tool which could block an IP address across all Wikimedia projects. The discussion centers on which users should get the tool (i.e. the selection process), the Global Blocking policy, and the participation of Wikimedia projects. By the way - the impetus for this largely comes from the checkusers' mailing list, where the stewards have a hair-tearing time tracking and blocking really odious cross-wiki vandals. It's unfortunately a typical pattern where this sort of vandal will be kicked off one wiki and go wild on as many others as they can. It's anticipated these sort of blocks will be placed by meta admins and/or stewards, and (per how stewards are supposed to work) only where it's a really clear case of "block this vandal right now." - d. _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l