Hoi, For your amusement, I have won a bet that within a month of the launch of single login people would ask for exactly this kind of functionality. You will appreciate that the policies of when to block are not the same on all projects. Even the notion of what is NPOV and what is POV is not appreciated in the same way on all Wikipedias.. The fact that there was a holocaust for instance is not accepted fact everywhere.. :( There are already functions that have been implemented that work on all projects, the spam functionality is the first that comes to mind.
Mind you, dealing uniformly with open proxies is a good thing. A project should be able to unsubscribe to such a service, this is how you can give projects their "autonomy".
Thanks, GerardM
Oldak Quill wrote:
On 19/10/06, Simetrical Simetrical+wikitech@gmail.com wrote:
It would also result in cross-wiki block/unblock wars with no central authority to realistically appeal to. Open proxies should be dealt with on the software level via DNSBL as discussed here a while back, and there's not so much reason to carry over other blocks. If this does occur, it needs to be a (bureaucrat-settable?) local option to inherit from one specific wiki, and blocks need to be locally overridable by local admins.
Perhaps after single login it may be good to have a pan-Wikimedia user control space where blocks are discussed/controlled multilingually. I've no idea who could be a member of this space (all admins on any Wikimedia project?).