On Jan 31, 2008 3:37 PM, Jesse Martin (Pathoschild) pathoschild@gmail.com wrote:
This doesn't have the problems of global blocking, and it would be extremely useful in stopping wiki-jumping vandals. Without crosswiki blocking, a steward needs to navigate to each project, register an account or log in, navigate to Special:Userrights and set admin access from Meta, navigate to Special:Blockip and block the vandal from the local project, and switch back to Special:Userrights on Meta to remove their admin access. By the time they're done, the vandal has hit six more wikis. Obviously, the current way we do things is ridiculous and not scalable in the least.
So, how many times have people suggested steward-bots so far? :)