On 30.06.2008, 1:47 Thomas wrote:
2008/6/29 Brion Vibber brion@wikimedia.org:
Voice of All wrote:
I'd keep it. Some site admins may not feel comfortable with sysops being able to block large portions of internet users, especially if they don't know what they are doing. But, yes, not used much.
$wgSysopUserBans controls the ability to block individual user accounts.
Is there any difference at all between
$wgGroupPermissions['sysop']['block'] = true;
and
$wgSysopUserBans = true;
?
If not, then it should certainly be deprecated (and should have been as soon as the current user rights system was implemented, really).
The first permits sysops to block in principle, the second - to block registered users. It's enabled everywhere and I haven't heard about a single wiki where it's currently set to false. The only reason for its existence in the first place was lack of policy[1] and absense of such a feature in UseMod. Apparently, after everyone came to agreement that blocking users is OK[2], this setting stopped making any sense.
---- [1] http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2003-August/005859.html [2] http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2003-September/thread.html