On 10/19/06, Piotr Derbeth Kubowicz derbeth@wp.pl wrote:
For me, it is logical that block of IP number should be common to all Wikimedia projects. Allowing this would have a large impact on number of vandalisms in sister projects.
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.